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Record Nr.

UNINA9910826821903321

Titolo

Power games : a critical sociology of sport / / edited by John Sugden and Alan Tomlinson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2002

ISBN

1-136-40212-8

0-415-25101-X

1-315-01269-3

1-136-40205-5

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (317 p.)

Classificazione

76.10

Altri autori (Persone)

SugdenJohn Peter

TomlinsonAlan

Disciplina

306.4/83

Soggetti

Sports - Social aspects

Power (Social sciences)

Critical theory

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

part 1. Theory and method -- part 2. Theory : interventions and re-evaluations -- part 3. Method : case studies and ethnographies.

Sommario/riassunto

Critical and radical perspectives have been central to the emergence of the sociology of sport as a discipline in its own right. This ground-breaking new book is the first to offer a comprehensive theory and method for a critical sociology of sport. It argues that class, political economy, hegemony and other concepts central to the radical tradition are essential for framing, understanding and changing social and political relations within sport and between sport and society.<BR>The book draws upon the disciplines of politics, sociology, history and philosophy to provide a critical analysis of