Sport and Modern Social Theorists(English, Hardcover, Giulianotti Richard)

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Sport and Modern Social Theorists(English, Hardcover, Giulianotti Richard) is written by Giulianotti Richard and published by Palgrave Macmillan. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0333800788 (ISBN 10) and 9780333800782 (ISBN 13).

Sport and Modern Social Theorists is an innovative and exciting new collection. The chapters are written by leading social analysts of sport from across the world, and examine the contributions of major social theorists towards our critical understanding of modern sport. Social theorists under critical examination include Marx, Weber, Durkheim, Adorno, Gramsci, Habermas, Merton, C.Wright Mills, Goffman, Giddens, Elias, Bourdieu and Foucault. This book will appeal to students and scholars of sport studies, cultural studies, modern social theory, and to social scientists generally.