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Sport and Leisure in Social Thought

Published 11 September 2002
Grant Jarvie, Joseph Maguire
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Abstract

Introduction: Sport and Leisure and Social Thought 1. Functionalism, Solidarity and Social Stratification 2. Interpretive sociology: Rationalisation, Cultural Pessimism and the Search for Meaning 3. Beyond Conventional Pluralism 4. Classical Marxism, Political Economy and Beyond 5. Culture as a War of Position and a Way of Life 6. Figurations, Power and civilizing Processes 7. Feminist Thought and the Boundaries of Sisterhood 8. Fields of Power, Habitus and Distinction 9. Beyond Modernity and the Problems of Postmodernism 10. Dependency and Globalisation: Sport, Leisure and Global Processes

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Social Sciences