Sport and Leisure in Social Thought Book

	Acknowledgements
	Introduction: Sport and leisure in social thought	1
1	Functionalism, solidarity and social stratification	5
	The social functions of sport and leisure practices	9
	The division of labour: From mechanical to organic solidarity and the making of modern sports and societies	11
	Suicide, the elementary forms of religious life and the sports phenomenon	13
	Stratification, sport and leisure practices and social mobility	20
2	Interpretative sociology: Rationalisation, cultural pessimism and the search for meaning	29
	Simmel, sociation and the societal labyrinth	30
	Social geometry, conflict, space and the metropolis	33
	The philosophy of money, leisure and modernity	40
	Weber, verstehen, ideal types and historical sociology	44
	Rationalisation and body cultures	50
	Art, music and styles of life: Seeking solace in aestheticism	56
3	Beyond conventional pluralism	67
	A sociology of competing interest groups	68
	Neo-liberals, democracy and the market place	71
	Modernisation, industrialisation and social evolution	75
	From conventional to critical pluralism	77
4	Classical Marxism, political economy and beyond	86
	A contribution to the critique of political economy	89
	Alienation and the division of labour	93
	Ideology, political consciousness and class formation	95
	Marxism after Marx	99
5	Culture as a war of position and a way of life	108
	Gramsci's Italy, economism and a rejection of Marxism	109
	Hegemony and the forces of coercion and consent	113
	The working class on two wheels	117
	Beyond the border country	119
6	Figurations, power and civilising processes	130
	Sportisation and the making of modern sport and leisure	137
	Embodied emotions, pleasure and leisure in the spare-time spectrum	141
	Sport, leisure and globalisation processes: Diminishing contrasts and increasing varieties	146
7	Feminist thought and the boundaries of sisterhood	161
	Biology, bodies and femininity	165
	Different paths to emancipation	167
	Gender, bureaucracy and organisational elites	169
	Black feminism and the boundaries of sisterhood	172
	Postmodern feminism	176
8	Fields of power, habitus and distinction	183
	Sport practices, habitus and the body	185
	Sport, social fields and class relations	193
	Leisure, lifestyle and distinction	198
9	Beyond modernity and the problems of postmodernism	211
	Ancient sport symbols, nostalgia, and postmodernism	215
	Scarcity, seriousness and the elevation of play	217
	Disneyland, hyper-reality and deconstruction	220
10	Dependency and globalisation: Sport, leisure and global processes	230
	Dependency and sport: Domination and resistance	237
	Globalisation and the global sports/leisure process	250
	Index	264