The Making of Sporting Cultures develops a cultural historical approach to the study of sport, allowing for an appreciation of how sporting cultures are actively made by people as social agents and how sports become located within the ‘common culture’ of different nations across time.
Publisher: Routledge
Publication Place: UK
Publication Year: 2012-01-15
Language: English
Number of Pages: 162
Edition: 1
Series: Sport in the Global Society – Contemporary Perspectives
Tracing development of scientific sociology from Comte onwards, this book provides a narrative history of figures, ideas, and schools that lie behind ..