Sport and Modern Social Theorists

RICHARD GIULIANOTTI is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Aberdeen. He is the author of Football: A Sociology of the Global Game (1999), and Sport: A Critical Sociology (2004). He is co-editor of numerous books on sport, most recently (with G.Armstrong) Football in Africa (2004) and Fear and Loathing in World Football (2001).

• Introduction: Sport and Social Theorists: A Plurality of Perspectives; R.Giulianotti The Sportification Process: A Biographical Analysis Framed by the Work of Marx, Weber, Durkheim and Freud; A.G.Ingham Social Structure and Social Theory: Intellectual Insights of Robert K. Merton; J.Loy & D.Booth Reclaiming Goffman: Erving Goffman's Influence on the Sociology of Sport; S.Birrell & P.Donnelly Consciousness, Craft, Commitment: The Sociological Imagination of C. Wright Mills; J.Loy & D.Booth Theodor Adorno on Sport: The Jeu D'Esprit of Despair; D.Inglis Antonio Gramsci: Sport, Hegemony and the National-Popular; D.Rowe Sport, Colonialism and Struggle: CLR James and Cricket; B.Stoddart Anthony Giddens, Structuration Theory, and Sport and Leisure; J.Horne & D.Jary Civilizing Games: Norbert Elias and the Sociology of Sport; R.Giulianotti Pierre Bourdieu and the Sociological Study of Sport: Habitus, Capital and Field; A.Tomlinson Habermas on Sports: Social Theory from a Moral Perspective; W.J.Morgan Querying Sport Feminism: Personal or Political?; J.Hargreaves Michel Foucault: Studies of Power and Sport; C.L.Cole , M.D.Giardina & D.L.Andrews The Fate of Hyperreality: Jean Baudrillard and the Sociology of Sport; R.Giulianotti