A Critical Realist Theory of Sport
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A Critical Realist Theory of Sport

  1. 216 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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A Critical Realist Theory of Sport

About this book

This book argues that sport in the era of global or financialised capitalism has undergone a process of fracturing, which requires a re-assessment of longstanding and consensual accounts of traditional-to-modern sporting activity. Considering rival concepts of sport, it presents detailed, illustrative studies of various types of sporting or athletic activity – including soccer, cricket, rugby and track and field – to advance an alternative sociological understanding of sport rooted in the philosophies and theories of critical realism and critical theory. As such, A Critical Realist Theory of Sport will appeal to scholars of sociology and social theory with interests in sport, research methods and critical realist thought.

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Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2022
Print ISBN
9780367743178
eBook ISBN
9781000815337

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Series
  4. Title
  5. Copyright
  6. Table of Contents
  7. Acknowledgements
  8. Introduction: A Critical Realist Theory of Sport
  9. 1 The Case for a Revised Sociology of Sport
  10. 2 A Critical Realist Frame
  11. 3 From Hyper-Rationalisation to the Fractured Society
  12. 4 Global System Versus Local Lifeworld
  13. 5 A Case Study: Rugby as ‘Tribal Warfare’
  14. 6 Sociology and Sport in the Fractured Society
  15. References
  16. Index