Sport and Modernity

by Richard Gruneau

Book Overview

This important new book from one of the world's leading sociologists of sport weaves together social theory, history and political economy to provide a highly original analysis of the complex relationship between sport and modernity.

Incorporating a powerful set of theoretical insights from traditions and thinkers ranging from classical Marxism and the Frankfurt School to Foucault and Bourdieu, Gruneau analyzes the emergence of "sport" as...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1509501576
• ISBN13: 9781509501571
• Release Date: November 2017
• Publisher: Polity Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.9"