Sport Matters - Sociological Studies of Sport, Violence and Civilisation (Hardcover, New)

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.