Sport : : Readings from a Sociological Perspective / / ed. by Eric Dunning.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
• MitwirkendeR: Armer, J. Michael,; Arond, Henry,; Ashworth, C. E.,; Boyle, Robert H.,; Caillois, Roger,; Denney, Reuel,; Dunning, Eric,; Elias, Norbert,; Heinila, Kalevi,; Huizinga, Johann,; Luschen, Günther,; Meadow, Arnold,; Riesman, David,; Schafer, Walter E.,; Stone, Gregory P.,; Taylor, Ian,; Weinberg, S. Kirson,; Zurcher, Louis A.,
• HerausgeberIn: Dunning, Eric,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2017]; ©1972
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Series: Heritage
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (404 p.)

Sport is something rather taken for granted and little studied as part of man's and society's behaviour. This collection of essays, many of which appear in print for the first time, provides an international comparative and developmental orientation to the sociology of sport, thereby clarifying the nature of modern sports and their central structural and functional characteristics. The sports treated include football, soccer, rugby, wrestling, baseball, and bull-fighting, and some historical background is given on the development of sport. In the introduction to each section, the editor explains the questions that the selections are intended to illustrate, and treats briefly such matters as theories of sport and play, the social factors in their development, sport and socialization, class and race in sport, sport as an occupation and an industry, and conflict and social control in sport. This reader will be of interest to those professionally concerned, either as teacher or student, with sociology and physical education, but it should also appeal to athletes, sports-lovers, and sports commentators who like to keep their thinking in good shape too.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- Preface -- General Introduction. Sport as a Field of Sociological Enquiry -- Part I. Some Concepts and Theories -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. The Play Element in Contemporary Sport -- Chapter 2. The Classification of Games -- Chapter 3. Sport as Symbolic Dialogue -- Chapter 4. American Sports: Play and Display -- Chapter 5. Dynamics of Sport Groups with Special Reference to Football -- Part II. The Development of Sports and Games -- Introduction -- Chapter 6. The Genesis of Sport as a Sociological Problem -- Chapter 7. Folk Football in Medieval and Early Modern Britain -- Chapter 8. The Development of Modern Football -- Chapter 9. Football in America: A Study in Culture Diffusion -- Part III. (A) Sports and Socialisation -- Introduction -- Chapter 10. On Bullfights and Baseball: An Example of Interaction of Social Institutions -- Chapter 11. On Scholarship and Interscholastic Athletics -- Part III. (B) Class and Race in Sport -- Introduction -- Chapter 12. Social Stratification and Mobility Among Young German Sportsmen -- Chapter 13. Negroes in Baseball -- Part III. (C) Sport As An Occupation -- Introduction -- Chapter 14. The Occupational Culture of the Boxer -- Chapter 15. Wrestling—The Great American Passion Play -- Part III. (D) Conflict and Social Control in Sport -- Introduction -- Chapter 16. Notes on Inter-Group Conflicts in International Sport -- Chapter 17. “Football Mad”: A Speculative Sociology of Football Hooliganism -- Index