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Tables of Contents for Theory, Sport & Society
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Dedication
v
Preface
ix
Acknowledgements
xv
Introduction: `Back to the Future': Thinking Sociologically about Sport
1
24
Joseph Maguire
Kevin Young
Part I: Classical Questions
Karl Marx's Enduring Legacy for the Sociology of Sport
25
16
Rob Beamish
Emile Durkheim, Structural Functionalism and the Sociology of Sport
41
22
John Loy
Douglas Booth
Max Weber and the Sociology of Sport
63
20
Hart Cantelon
Alan G. Ingham
George Herbert Mead and an Interpretive Sociology of Sport
83
22
Peter Donnelly
Part II: Contemporary Concerns
Sport, Gender, Feminism
105
24
Shona M. Thompson
The Anthropology of Sport: Escaping the Past and Building a Future
129
22
Alan Klein
Cultural and Sport Studies: An Interventionist Practice
151
28
Jeremy W. Howell
David L. Andrews
Steven J. Jackson
Postmodernism and Sport Studies
179
32
Genevieve Rail
Part III: Potential Syntheses
Figurational Contributions to the Sociological Study of Sport
211
28
Eric Dunning
Pierre Bourdieu's Sociocultural Theory and Sport Practice
239
28
Suzanne Laberge
Joanne Kay
Studying Sport from a Social Network Approach
267
26
Howard G. Nixon II
Michel Foucault: Sport, Power, Technologies and Governmentality
293
24
Jennifer Smith Maguire
Part IV: Future Directions
Feminist and Figurational Sociology: Dialogue and Potential Synthesis
317
18
Louise Mansfield
The Political Economy of Place: Urban and Sport Studies Perspectives
335
18
Kimberly S. Schimmel
Symbolic Interactionism and Cultural Studies: Doing Critical Ethnography
353
22
Becky Beal
Bodies, Subcultures and Sport
375
22
Michael Atkinson
Brian Wilson
About the Editors and the Contributors
397
6
Author Index
403
6
Subject Index
409