Sport and Modern Social Theorists

by Richard Giulianotti (Editor )

Sport and Modern Social Theorists is an innovative and exciting new collection. The chapters are written by leading social analysts of sport from across the world, and examine the contributions of major social theorists towards our critical understanding of modern sport. Social theorists under critical examination include Marx, Weber, Durkheim, Adorno, Gramsci, Habermas, Merton, C.Wright Mills, Goffman, Giddens, Elias, Bourdieu and Foucault. This book will appeal to students and scholars of sport studies, cultural studies, modern social theory, and to social scientists generally.

263 pages, Hardcover

First published August 3, 2004

About the author

Richard Giulianotti is currently employed by Aberdeen University's Sociology Department as ESRC Research Assistant on a research project studying Scottish football fan behaviour and related youth sub-cultures.

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[Joaquín Vidal · Rating 5 out of 5]

Compendio de los pensadores más importantes del siglo XX en su aplicación a la Sociología del Deporte.