Power Games: A Critical Sociology of Sport

by Alan Tomlinson

Book Overview

Critical and radical perspectives have been central to the emergence of the sociology of sport as a discipline in its own right. This ground-breaking new book is the first to offer a comprehensive theory and method for a critical sociology of sport. It argues that class, political economy, hegemony and other concepts central to the radical tradition are essential for framing, understanding and changing social and political relations within sport and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 041525101X
• ISBN13: 9780415251013
• Release Date: July 2002
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.12 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"