Quest for Excitement: Sport and Leisure in the Civilising Process by Norbert Elias

Quest for Excitement: Sport and Leisure in the Civilising Process

Collected Works of Norbert Elias #7

Norbert Elias

336 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction sociology sports challenging informative slow-paced
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Elias effectively founded the modern sociology of sport in collaboration with Eric Dunning in the 1960s and 1970s. They argue that in highly constrained, 'civilised' societies, sports - as well as a spectrum of other cultural and leisure activitie...

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