 | Sport in Society: Issues and Controversies: With PowerWeb: With PowerWeb/OLC Bind-in Passcard by Jay J. Coakley
Buy used from: £14.00 a very good introductory book. You must begin your sociological journey of sport with this !
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 | Sport and Modern Social Theorists
Buy new: £20.99 / Used from: £12.26 This book provides a brief explanation of soical theories and sport.
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 | The Quest for Excitement: Sport and Leisure in the Civilizing Process by Elias
Buy used from: £21.83 The masterpiece, sociology of sport from a figurational sociological view.
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 | Sport Matters: Sociological Studies of Sport, Violence and Civilisation by Eric Dunning
Buy new: £29.99 / Used from: £19.99 This book also offers an excellent sociological enquiry from a figurational perspective.
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 | Leftist Theories of Sport: A Critique and Reconstruction (Sport & Society) (Sport and Society) by William J. Morgan
Buy new: £21.84 / Used from: £8.49 If you are interested in a critial theory, this is the book you need to read.
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 | From Ritual to Record: The Nature of Modern Sports by Allen Guttmann
Buy new: £18.53 / Used from: £9.89 This book explains the development of modern sport using a Weberian appraoch, mainly a theoy of 'rationalisation'.
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 | Inside Sports
Buy new: £29.75 / Used from: £4.65 This book can be categorised as an symbolic interactionist view on sport
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 | Sport, Culture and the Media: The Unruly Trinity (Issues in Cultural and Media Studies) by David Charles Rowe
Buy new: £16.94 / Used from: £16.00 You must understand characteristics of media sport; you must read this book.
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 | Global Sport: Identities, Societies, Civilizations by Joseph Maguire
Buy new: £18.04 / Used from: £5.39 How can you make sense of a contemporary sport scene without understanding globalisation of sport? This book give you a solution.
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 | Sport, Nationalism and Globalization: European and North American Perspectives (Suny Series, National Identities) by Alan Bairner
Buy new: £17.10 / Used from: £9.99 Nationalism may be the most important concept amongst social dimensions of sport. If you want to know about the topic in details, read this book.
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