Description
Product ID: | 9780367743185 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Series: | Routledge Studies in Critical Realism |
Title: | A Critical Realist Theory of Sport |
Authors: | Author: Graham Scambler |
Page Count: | 188 |
Subjects: | Society and culture: general, Society & culture: general, Sociology, Anthropology, Sport: general, Sociology, Anthropology, Sports & outdoor recreation |
Description: | Select Guide Rating 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. 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. |
Imprint Name: | Routledge |
Publisher Name: | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2022-12-30 |