Quest for Excitement: Sport and Leisure in the Civilizing Process

by Norbert Elias

Elias effectively founded the modern sociology of sport in collaboration with Eric Dunning in the 1960s and 1970s. They argue that in highly constrained, 'civilised' societies, sports - as well as a... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0631146547
• ISBN13: 9780631146544
• Release Date: January 1986
• Publisher: Blackwell Publishers
• Length: 313 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.