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"Sport Histories" draws on figurational sociology to provide a
fresh approach to analyzing the development of modern sports. The
book brings together ten case studies, examining both mainstream,
well-researched sports - such as soccer, rugby, baseball, boxing
and cricket - and sports relatively neglected by historians and
sociologists - such as shooting, motor racing, tennis, gymnastics
and martial arts.
The book explores key issues in the study of sport, including:
- The relative influence of intra-national and international
conflicts
- The importance of commercial processes
- Violence and control of violence
- Differences between elite and mass sport movements
- The part played by sport in the development of cultures and
societies
This groundbreaking work illustrates the distinctiveness of the
figurational sociological approach and its usefulness in examining
the development of modern sport. It represents an important
crossing of the boundary between the disciplines of history and
sociology in the study of sport, and will be of great interest to
students and researchers working in both disciplines.
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. Sports lovers, rugby fans and
students of the history and sociology of sport will find it
invaluable. Rugby football is descended from winter 'folk games'
which were a deeply rooted tradition in pre-industrial Britain.
This was the first book to study the development of Rugby from this
folk tradition to the game in its modern forms. The folk forms of
football were extremely violent and serious injuries - even death -
were a common feature. The game was refined in the public schools
who played a crucial role in formulating the rules which required
footballers to exercise greater self-control. With the spread of
rugby into the wider society, the Rugby Football Union was founded
but class tensions led to the split between Rugby Union and Rugby
League. The authors examine the changes that led to the
professionalisation of Rugby Union as well as the alleged
resurgence of violence in the modern game.
This book presents a synthesis of the work on early football
undertaken by the authors over the past two decades. It explores
aspects of a figurational approach to sociology to examine the
early development of football rules in the middle part of the
nineteenth century. The book tests Dunning's status rivalry
hypothesis to contest Harvey's view of football's development which
stresses an influential sub-culture outside the public schools.
Status Rivalry re-states the primacy of these latter institutions
in the growth of football and without it the sport's story would
remain skewed and unbalanced for future generations.
This book traces international developments in the hooligan
phenomenon since the Heysel tragedy of 1985. The authors make
special reference to the troubled European championships in West
Germany in 1988 and look critically at political responses to the
problem. The authors used 'participant observation' in their
research on British fans at the World Cup in Spain, and at matches
in Rotterdam and Copenhagen, and capture the authentic voice of
football hooliganism in their interviews. In this analysis of
patterns of football violence the authors suggest some short-term
proposals for restricting seriously violent and disorderly
behaviour at continental matches and put forward a long-term
strategy to deal with the root causes of hooligan behaviour.
This systematic historical and sociological study of the phenomenon
of football hooliganism examines the history of crowd
disorderliness at association football matches in Britain and
assesses both popular and academic explanations of the problem. The
authors' study starts in the 1880s, when professional football
first emerged in its modern form, charting the pre and inter-war
periods and revealing that England's World Cup triumph formed a
watershed. The changing social composition of football crowds and
the changing class structure of British society is discussed and
the genesis of modern football hooliganism is explained by tracing
it to the cultural conditions and circumstances which reproduce in
young working-class males an interest in a publicly expressed
aggressive masculine style.
This book presents a synthesis of the work on early football
undertaken by the authors over the past two decades. It explores
aspects of a figurational approach to sociology to examine the
early development of football rules in the middle part of the
nineteenth century. The book tests Dunning's status rivalry
hypothesis to contest Harvey's view of football's development which
stresses an influential sub-culture outside the public schools.
Status Rivalry re-states the primacy of these latter institutions
in the growth of football and without it the sport's story would
remain skewed and unbalanced for future generations.
This systematic historical and sociological study of the phenomenon
of football hooliganism examines the history of crowd
disorderliness at association football matches in Britain and
assesses both popular and academic explanations of the problem. The
authors' study starts in the 1880s, when professional football
first emerged in its modern form, charting the pre and inter-war
periods and revealing that England's World Cup triumph formed a
watershed. The changing social composition of football crowds and
the changing class structure of British society is discussed and
the genesis of modern football hooliganism is explained by tracing
it to the cultural conditions and circumstances which reproduce in
young working-class males an interest in a publicly expressed
aggressive masculine style.
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. Sports lovers, rugby fans and
students of the history and sociology of sport will find it
invaluable. Rugby football is descended from winter 'folk games'
which were a deeply rooted tradition in pre-industrial Britain.
This was the first book to study the development of Rugby from this
folk tradition to the game in its modern forms. The folk forms of
football were extremely violent and serious injuries - even death -
were a common feature. The game was refined in the public schools
who played a crucial role in formulating the rules which required
footballers to exercise greater self-control. With the spread of
rugby into the wider society, the Rugby Football Union was founded
but class tensions led to the split between Rugby Union and Rugby
League. The authors examine the changes that led to the
professionalisation of Rugby Union as well as the alleged
resurgence of violence in the modern game.
Sport Matters offers a comprehensive introduction to the study of modern sport from a sociological perspective. It covers such topics as the history of sport, the development of ideas of 'fair play', sport and the emotions, the professionalization of sport, race-relations and sport and sport and gender. Unique in its cross-cultural analysis, it uses examples from around the globe, including sports spectator violence in North America, the growth of international soccer and the role of sport in the European identity.
Contents: Contents Preface Introduction: Sport as a Field of Sociological Enquiry 1. On Problems of the Emotions in Sport and Leisure 2. Sport in the Western Civilizing Process 3. Sport in Space and Time: State-Formation and the Early Development of Modern Sport 4. The Dynamics of Sports Consumption 5. The Development of Soccer as a World Game 6. Football Hooliganism as a World Social Problem 7. Sports Crowd Violence in North America 8. Sport in the Process of Racial Stratification: the Case of the USA 9. Sport, Gender and Civilisation. Notes. Bibliography.
First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor and
Francis, an informa company.
International football fixtures, such as the World Cup finals in
italy in 1990, draw together not only rival teams but rival fans.
The police and the media are increasingly geared up to tackle
international fixtures as occasions for the outbreak of crowd
disorder. It can sometimes seem that the behaviour of the fans is
more important than the game itself. "Football on Trial" examines
some of the causes of football hooliganism as a European and World
phenomenon. It casts an eye forward to the 1994 World Cup in Los
Angeles and asks why soccer hooliganism has not been a problem in
the USA. It also examines the connections between player violence
and spectator violence, and considers the role of the media in
producing soccer crowd disorder. The authors have also written
"Hooligans Abroad" and "The Roots of Football Hooliganism".
Sports Histories draws on figurational sociology to provide a fresh
approach to analysing the development of modern sport. The book
brings together ten case studies from a wide range of sports,
including mainstream sports such as soccer, rugby, baseball, boxing
and cricket, to other sports that until now have been largely
neglected by sports historians, such as shooting, motor racing,
tennis, gymnastics and martial arts. This groundbreaking work
highlights key debates in the analysis of modern sport, such as:
The relative influence of intra national class conflict and
international conflict; The relative prominence of commercially led
processes in different contexts; The centrality of concerns over
violence; Differences between elite and mass-led sports
developments; Above all, Sport Histories proves the distinctiveness
of the figurational sociological approach and its usefulness in the
study of the development of modern sport.
How do figurational sociologists approach the subjects of sport and
leisure? How does their approach differ from other approaches in
the field? This major collection, edited by leading writers on
sport and leisure, offers a superb introduction to the figurational
sociology of sport and leisure. The distinctive features of the
approach are clearly explained and contributors show how
figurational sociology is applied in the analysis of concrete
problems. However, the collection also gives space to critics of
the figurational approach. Included here are contributions which
claim that the approach is inaccurate, blinkered and irrelevant.
How do figurational sociologists approach the subjects of sport and
leisure? How does their approach differ from other approaches in
the field? This major collection, edited by leading writers on
sport and leisure, offers a superb introduction to the figurational
sociology of sport and leisure. The distinctive features of the
approach are clearly explained and contributors show how
figurational sociology is applied in the analysis of concrete
problems. However, the collection also gives space to critics of
the figurational approach. Included here are contributions which
claim that the approach is inaccurate, blinkered and irrelevant.
This book traces international developments in the hooligan
phenomenon since the Heysel tragedy of 1985. The authors make
special reference to the troubled European championships in West
Germany in 1988 and look critically at political responses to the
problem. The authors used 'participant observation' in their
research on British fans at the World Cup in Spain, and at matches
in Rotterdam and Copenhagen, and capture the authentic voice of
football hooliganism in their interviews. In this analysis of
patterns of football violence the authors suggest some short-term
proposals for restricting seriously violent and disorderly
behaviour at continental matches and put forward a long-term
strategy to deal with the root causes of hooligan behaviour.
Studies on the Germans, Volume 11 of the Collected Works, was first
published in German in 1989, exactly 50 years after Elias' most
famous work, On the Process of Civilisation. The essays in the book
were written independently of each other over three decades. In
this new edition, Elias' original English text of the extremely
important essay 'The breakdown of civilisation' is published for
the first time. Other essays include those on duelling and its
wider social significance, as well as on nationalism, civilisation
and violence, and post-war terrorism in the Federal Republic of
Germany. All the essays have been newly annotated by the editors,
especially to make clear many historical references that Elias,
unrealistically, assumed his readers would understand without
further explanation.
Soccer hooliganism has long been regarded as primarily an English -
or perhaps British - disease, yet in fact it has long existed as a
social problem worldwide. In this volume, experts consider
hooliganism in 14 countries - eight soccer-playing countries in
Europe (including Ireland), two in South America, Australia, South
Africa, Japan, and, in the case of North America, a chapter on
general sports-related violence. Why have problems of hooliganism
from the outset become more regularly attached to soccer than to
other global sports? The social roots and forms of soccer
hooliganism are explored in the various countries. Do racial,
religious or social class cleavages play a part in developing and
fostering football violence? What part do the media play? Is
hooliganism related to the degree to which soccer is central to the
value-system of a country, and the length of time that it has
occupied such a position? Though they themselves adhere to a range
of different sociological perspectives, the contributors focus on
the important theoretical framework devised by Eric Dunning and the
Leicester School, in particular the role of aggressive masculinity
and the hypothesis that attending matches is part of a "quest for
excitement".
This is Volume 3 in the "Collected Works of Norbert Elias",
translated by Edmund Jephcott. Recognised as one of the most
important works of sociology in the last century, "On the Process
of Civilisation" has been influential and widely discussed across
the whole range of the humanities and social sciences. This
sumptuous new edition, completely revised with many corrections and
clarifications, includes colour plates of all the 13 drawings from
"Das Mittelaterliche Hausbuch" to which Elias refers in his famous
discussion of 'Scenes from the life of a knight'. Beginning with
his celebrated study of the changing standards of behaviour of the
secular upper classes in Western Europe since the Middle Ages,
Elias demonstrates how 'psychological' changes in habitus and
emotion management were linked to wider transformations in power
relations, especially the monopolisation of violence and taxation
by more increasingly effective state apparatuses.
This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open
Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com.
This book explores the interplay between the making of Elias as a
sociologist and the development of his core ideas relating to
figurations, interdependence, and civilising processes. Focusing on
the relevance of Elias's work for current debates within sociology,
the authors centrally consider his contributions to the sociology
of knowledge and methodology. Dunning and Hughes locate the work of
Elias within a discussion of the crisis of sociology as a subject,
and compare his figurational approach with the approaches of three
major figures in modern sociology: Anthony Giddens, Michel Foucault
and Pierre Bourdieu. This highly readable and engaging book will be
essential reading for students and scholars of sociological theory
and methods.
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The Germans (Hardcover)
Norbert Elias; Edited by Michael Schroter; Translated by Eric Dunning, Stephen Mennell
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The last major work by one of our century's most influential
social theorists, "The Germans" is a penetrating account of German
social development, from the seventeenth century to the present.
Enhanced by his deep understanding of other Western European
nations, Norbert Elias's incisive analyses of nationalism,
violence, and the breakdown of civilization will be an
indispensable resource for those interested in modern European
history and sociology and in European studies.
This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open
Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com.
This book explores the interplay between the making of Elias as a
sociologist and the development of his core ideas relating to
figurations, interdependence, and civilising processes. Focusing on
the relevance of Elias's work for current debates within sociology,
the authors centrally consider his contributions to the sociology
of knowledge and methodology. Dunning and Hughes locate the work of
Elias within a discussion of the crisis of sociology as a subject,
and compare his figurational approach with the approaches of three
major figures in modern sociology: Anthony Giddens, Michel Foucault
and Pierre Bourdieu. This highly readable and engaging book will be
essential reading for students and scholars of sociological theory
and methods.
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