TY  - BOOK
AU  - Giulianotti,Richard
TI  - Sport: a critical sociology 
SN  - 0745625452
AV  - GV706.5 .G532 2005
PY  - 2005///
CY  - Oxford
PB  - Malden, MA
KW  - Sports
KW  - Sociological aspects
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; -- Durkheimian elements : religion, integration and social order in sport; -- Weberian trends : meaning and rationalization in sport; -- Marx and neo-Marxists : sport, work, alienation and ideology; -- Cultural studies : hegemony theory beyond resistance; -- 'Race', ethnicity and intolerance in sport; -- Gender identities and sexuality in sport; -- The body : discipline, conduct and the pleasures of sport; -- Sporting spaces : valuing topophilia; -- Elias on sport : the interplay of figurations; -- Bourdieu on sport : distinction, symbolic violence and struggle; -- The postmodern : premonitions of virtual, post-industrial sport; -- Globalization : the politics of 'glocal' sport; -- Epilogue : the critical sociology of sport : some recommendations
N2  - Presenting a critical sociological interpretation of modern sport, this work gives a cogent examination of a range of widely taught sociological theories and issues, including functionalism, Weberian sociology, Marxism, postmodernism and globalization
ER  -