Barbarians, gentlemen and players : a sociological study of the development of rugby football / / Eric Dunning and Kenneth Sheard

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910777475503321
• Autore: Dunning Eric
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2005
• ISBN: 1-135-76280-5; 1-135-76281-3; 1-280-28019-0; 0-203-49171-8; 9786610280193
• Edizione: [2nd ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (332 pages) : illustrations
• Collana: Sport in the global society
• Altri autori (Persone): SheardKenneth
• Disciplina: 796.333
• Soggetti: Rugby football - Social aspects
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Series title from series editor's foreword.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [287]-302) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Barbarians, Gentlemen and Players: A sociological study of the development of rugby football; Copyright; Contents; Series Editor's Foreword; Preface to the Second Edition; Preface to the First Edition; Introduction: The Development of Rugby Football as a Sociological Problem; Part I Folk-Antecedents and Transitional Forms of Football in the Public Schools; 1 The folk-antecedents of modern Rugby and their decline; 2 Football in the early nineteenth-century public schools; Part II The Modernization of Rugby Football; 3 The preconditions for modernization: embourgeoisement and public school reform4 The incipient modernization of Rugby football; 5 The 'civilizing process' and the formation of the RFU; 6 The democratization of Rugby football; 7 Professionalization and the amateur response; 8 The split; 9 The class structure and the professionalization of British sport; Part III The Development of Rugby Football as a Modern Sport; 10 The professionalization of Rugby League; 11 Rugby Union as a modern sport: bureaucracy, gate-taking clubs and the swansong of amateurism; Conclusion: Sociological reflections on the crisis in modern sport--Afterword: The continuing commercialization and professionalization of Rugby Union
• Sommario/riassunto: First published in 1979, this classic study of the development of rugby from folk game to its modern Union and League forms has become a seminal text in sport history. In a new epilogue the authors provide sociological analysis of the major developments in international ruby that have taken place since 1979, with particular attention to the professionalism that was predicted in the first edition of this text.