Vain Games Of No Value

Author : Terry Morris
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1504998529
Total Pages : 1344 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Vain Games of No Value? written by Terry Morris and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2016-03-03 with total page 1344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It should be unthinkable to write the social history of Britain from the late nineteenth century onwards without reference to association football. Yet by the time that the Football Association celebrated its centenary year in 1963, no serious academic analysis had been undertaken of the sport and of the various channels by which it had developed in different parts of the country. By the time that historians began to tackle that task, its complexity and diversity were such that it could only be undertaken in installments. Studies emerged that focused upon individual clubs and specific regions or which were limited to narrow time scales. No work examined the long century from the 1860s to the 1970s in full. This book analyses the growth of British football in all its aspectsthe developments of the football crowd, the status of the professional player, womens football, the difficult survival of amateurism, to mention but a few. It also highlights the factors that contributed to diverse developmental paths in different parts of the country. The author has used the widest range of source materials to achieve a broader overview of the games history than has previously been attempted.

Author : Chris Lee
Publisher : eBook Partnership
ISBN 13 : 178531923X
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Origin Stories written by Chris Lee and published by eBook Partnership. This book was released on 2021-04-19 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Origin Stories: The Pioneers Who Took Football to the World charts the growth of the game in each major footballing country, from the very first kick to the first World Cup in 1930. Football's global spread from muddy playing fields to colossal, purpose-built stadiums is a story of class, race, gender and politics. Along the way, you'll meet the people who established football around the world and discover the challenges they faced. Featuring interviews with leading historians, journalists, club chairmen and descendants of club founders and players, Origin Stories tells the fascinating country-by-country tale of how football put down its roots around the world. The sport's early growth includes a cast of English aristocrats and 'Scotch professors', French tournament pioneers, international merchants, keen students, raucous rebels and more. Origin Stories shows that football's early development was a truly global team effort.

Author : Eric Midwinter
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317680812
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fair Game (RLE Sports Studies) written by Eric Midwinter and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-04-24 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines modern sport in its social context and concludes that it is beset with over-commercialised motives, damaged by dangerous political alignments and marred by wrongheaded social values. The book provides a thought-provoking analysis and offers new insights into why and how modern sport has evolved into its present dominant position. It calls for radical reforms in the structure of, and attitudes towards, sport.

Author : Eric Dunning
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9780415262941
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sport: The development of sport written by Eric Dunning and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2003 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of texts providing a useful resource for students in the field of sports studies. Subject headings include approaches to the study of sport, the development and structure of modern sport, sport and power relations, and major issues in contemporary sport.

Author : Eric Dunning
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134447485
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sport Histories written by Eric Dunning and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-06 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sports Histories draws on figurational sociology to provide a fresh approach to analysing the development of modern sport. The book brings together ten case studies from a wide range of sports, including mainstream sports such as soccer, rugby, baseball, boxing and cricket, to other sports that until now have been largely neglected by sports historians, such as shooting, motor racing, tennis, gymnastics and martial arts. This groundbreaking work highlights key debates in the analysis of modern sport, such as: the relative influence of intra-national class conflict and international conflict the relative prominence of commercially led processes in different contexts the centrality of concerns over violence differences between elite and mass-led sports developments. Above all, Sport Histories proves the distinctiveness of the figurational sociological approach and its usefulness in the study of the development of modern sport.

Author : Eric Dunning
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134870132
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sport Matters written by Eric Dunning and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-04-03 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1999 North American Society for the Sociology of Sport Annual Book Award Sport Matters offers a comprehensive introduction to the study of modern sport from a sociological perspective. It covers such topics as the history of sport, the development of ideas of 'fair play', sport and the emotions, the professionalization of sport, race-relations and sport and sport and gender. Unique in its cross-cultural analysis, it uses examples from around the globe, including sports spectator violence in North America, the growth of international soccer and the role of sport in the European identity.

Author : David L. Miller
Publisher : Waveland Press
ISBN 13 : 1478610956
Total Pages : 608 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Introduction to Collective Behavior and Collective Action written by David L. Miller and published by Waveland Press. This book was released on 2013-08-06 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Millers expanded third edition makes it the definitive source on collective behavior and collective action. Up-to-date and meticulously researched, this popular volume continues to provide a systematic overview of theory and research. Each topic is meaningfully linked to the appropriate theories of collective behavior (mass hysteria, emergent-norm, and value-added perspectives) and collective action (social-behavioral interactionist, resource mobilization, and value-added perspectives). Rumor, mass hysteria, fads and fashion, UFOs, sports, migrations, disasters, riots, protest, and social movements are among the topics presented in a unique side-by-side presentation of the two disciplines. In an engaging, accessible style, Miller offers detailed discussion of classic sociological studies interspersed with intriguing modern-day examples that students will enjoy reading. His thorough topical treatment effectively reduces the need for outside readings.

Author : Graham Curry
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000907716
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From the Privileged to the Professionals written by Graham Curry and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-07-07 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is concerned with the early years of the Football Association Challenge Cup – more commonly known as the FA Cup – examining events from its inception in 1871–2 to the beginning of the Football League in 1888–9. The work is underpinned by the figurational sociology of Norbert Elias, employing his ideas around the European 'civilising process', power and lengthening chains of human interdependency. Most of all, the majority of the text has been compiled using primary source material, such as newspaper reports and the minutes of the Football Association, which encourages original and unique additions to the body of knowledge. There exist no comparable offerings on the time period involved, with the book providing a distinct perspective for scholars and non-specialists alike. The initial years of the competition were dominated by teams consisting mainly of upper-middle-class southern amateurs. However, by the early 1880s, they were supplanted by men who were initially covert– and eventually overt – professionals, many of whom hailed from Scotland, but mainly represented clubs from Lancashire and the West Midlands. The FA Cup, despite losing some of its allure when compared to competitions such as the UEFA Champions League, still retains a magic of its own in the English football calendar.

Author : Eric Dunning
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442638486
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sport written by Eric Dunning and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1972-12-15 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sport is something rather taken for granted and little studied as part of man's and society's behaviour. This collection of essays, many of which appear in print for the first time, provides an international comparative and developmental orientation to the sociology of sport, thereby clarifying the nature of modern sports and their central structural and functional characteristics. The sports treated include football, soccer, rugby, wrestling, baseball, and bull-fighting, and some historical background is given on the development of sport. In the introduction to each section, the editor explains the questions that the selections are intended to illustrate, and treats briefly such matters as theories of sport and play, the social factors in their development, sport and socialization, class and race in sport, sport as an occupation and an industry, and conflict and social control in sport. This reader will be of interest to those professionally concerned, either as teacher or student, with sociology and physical education, but it should also appeal to athletes, sports-lovers, and sports commentators who like to keep their thinking in good shape too.

Author : Great Britain. Public Record Office
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 840 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Calendar of the Close Rolls ... written by Great Britain. Public Record Office and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 840 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: