Sport and Society: History, Power and Culture

This is a succinct and comprehensive account of the contemporary sociology of sport. It starts by tracing the key 'moments' in the transition from pre-modern to modern sport, giving detailed accounts of the athletic competition in the ancient games at Olympia; the genesis of modern track-and-field athletics in nineteenth-century England; and the reconstruction by de Coubertin and unfolding of the Olympic movement through the twentieth century.

• | Author: Graham Scambler
• | Publisher: Open University Press
• | Publication Date: Jan 01, 2005
• | Number of Pages: 226 pages
• | Binding: Paperback or Softback
• | ISBN-10: 0335210708
• | ISBN-13: 9780335210701