Overview
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.
- | Author: Richard Giulianotti
- | Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
- | Publication Date: Jul 19, 2004
- | Number of Pages: 252 pages
- | Binding: Paperback or Softback
- | ISBN-10: 0333800796
- | ISBN-13: 9780333800799
