Sport and Society: History, Power and Culture

This is a succinct and comprehensive account of the contemporary sociology of sport. It starts by tracing the key 'moments' in the transition from pre-modern to modern sport, giving detailed accounts of the athletic competition in the ancient games at Olympia; the genesis of modern track-and-field athletics in nineteenth-century England; and the reconstruction by de Coubertin and unfolding of the Olympic movement through the twentieth century.

Author: Graham Scambler, Scambler Graham
Publisher: Open University Press
Published: 01/01/2005
Pages: 226
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.68lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.48d
ISBN: 9780335210701

About the Author

Graham Scambler is a professor of sociology in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Sciences at University College, London.

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