Handbook of Sports Studies (Häftad)
avJay Coakley, Eric Dunning
ISBN: 9780761949497 - UTGIVEN: 200011This vital new handbook marks the development of sports studies as a major new discipline within the social sciences. Edited by the leading sociologist of sport, Eric Dunning, and author of the best selling textbook on sport in the USA, Jay Coakley, it both reflects and richly endorses this new foun[...]
The Dunning School (Inbunden)
avJohn David (EDT) Smith, J. Vincent (EDT) Lowery, Eric (FRW) Foner
ISBN: 9780813142258 - UTGIVEN: 2013-10From the late nineteenth century until World War I, a group of Columbia University students gathered under the mentorship of the renowned historian William Archibald Dunning (1857-1922). Known as the Dunning School, these students wrote the first generation of state studies on the Reconstruction-vol[...]
Norbert Elias and Modern Sociology (Häftad)
avEric Dunning, Jason Hughes
ISBN: 9781780932262 - UTGIVEN: 201212This book explores the interplay between the making of Elias as a sociologist and the development of his core ideas relating to figurations, interdependence, and civilising processes. Focusing on the relevance of Elias's work for current debates within sociology, the authors centrally consider his c[...]
Quest for Excitement (Inbunden)
avNorbert Elias, Eric Dunning
ISBN: 9781904558439 - UTGIVEN: 200809Elias 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 spectrum of other cultural and leisure activities - are to be understood not in terms of 'relaxation'[...]
