Sport
Subtitle: A Critical Sociology
Publisher: Polity Press
Published: October 1, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9780745625454
Subjects: Anthropology; Sports & Outdoor Recreation; Sports; Sociological aspects; Social Science; Sociology; Popular Culture - General; Social Work; Sociology of Sports; SPORTS_SOCIAL ASPECTS; Sports & Recreation / Sociology of Sports
First sentence: Functionalist theories, and their variants of structural-functionalism and neo-functionalism, highlight the importance of social consensus and social order and play down the role of social conflict.