The sociology of sport
Subtitle: a selection of readings
By: with a foreword by Norbert Elias.
Series: New sociolgoy library,; no. 2
Publisher: Cass
Published: 1971
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 382
Subjects: Sports -- Social aspects -- Addresses, essays, lectures
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: 1. The play element in contemporary sports, by J. Huianinga.; title: 2. The classification of games, by R. Caillois.; title: 3. Sport as symbolic dialogue, by C.E. Ashworth.; title: 4. American sports: play and display, by G.P. Stone.; title: 5. Dynamics of sport groups with special reference to football, by N. Elias and E. Dunning.; title: 6. The genesis of sport as a sociological problem, by N. Elias.; title: 7. Folk football in medieval and early modern Britain, by N. Elias and E. Dunning.; title: 8. The development of modern football, by E. Dunning.; title: 9. Football in America: A Study in culture diffusion, by D. Riesman and R. Denney.; title: 10. On bullfights and baseball, by L.A. Zurcher and A. Meadow.; title: 11. On scholarship and interscholastic athletics, by W.E. Schafer and J.M. Armer.; title: 12. Social stratification and mobility among young German sportsmen, by G. Lüschen.; title: 13. Negroes in baseball, by R.H. Boyle.; title: 14.The occupational culture of the boxer, by S.K. Weinberg and H. Arnold.; title: 15. Wrestling: the great American passion play, by G.P. Stone.; title: 16. Notes on inter-group conflicts in international sport, by K. Heinila.; title: 17. "Football mad" : a speculative sociology of football hooliganism, by I. Taylor.