Sport, Leisure and Social Relations (RLE Sports Studies)

When this book was first published the study of sport had been largely neglected by sociologists. The contributions to this volume bring the sports field, the leisure centre and everyday leisure activities to a more central position within the sociological enterprise. Whether amateur or professional, sport contributes to wider relations of power, privilege and domination and this debate represents an important phase in the sociology of sport and leisure.

Multivolume collection by leading authors in the field

Introduction: The Sociology Analysis of Sport and Leisure 1. The Changing Work/Leisure balance in Britain: 1961-1984 2. Men and Women at Play: Gender, Life Cycle and Leisure 3. The Figurational Sociology of Sport and Leisure of Elias and Dunning: An Exposition and a Critique 4. Leisure, Symbolic Power and the Life Course 5. The Body, Sport and Power Relations 6. 'Boys Muscle In Where Angels Fear to Tread' - Girls Sub-Cultures and Physical Activities 7. The Exploitation of Disadvantage: The Occupational Sub-Culture of the Boxer 8.The Politics of Women's Leisure Rosemary Deem 9. Leisure, the State and Collective Consumption.