Sport and Democracy in the Ancient and Modern Worlds.

By: Christesen, PaulMaterial type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012Copyright date: ©2012Description: 1 online resource (330 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781139572590Subject(s): Sports -- History | Sports -- Sociological aspectsGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Sport and Democracy in the Ancient and Modern WorldsDDC classification: 937 LOC classification: GV573 .C57 2012Online resources: Click to View
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Cover -- Sport and Democracy in the Ancient and Modern Worlds -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Maps -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- A Note on the Title -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1. SETTING THE SCENE -- 1.2. LOOKING FORWARD -- 2 Terms and Concepts -- 2.1. DEMOCRATIZATION -- 2.2. MASS SPORT -- 2.3. HORIZONTAL AND VERTICAL SPORT -- 3 Previous Work Positing a Causal Relationship between Sport and Democratization -- 3.1. SOURCES OF SOCIAL ORDER -- 3.2. THE AMERICAN PROGRESSIVES -- 3.3. FUNCTIONALISM -- 3.4. CRITICAL SPORT SOCIOLOGY -- 3.5. ROBERT PUTNAM, SOCIAL CAPITAL, AND SPORT -- 4 Congruence between Society and Sport -- 4.1. THE IMPACT OF SOCIETY ON SPORT -- 4.2. THE IMPACT OF SPORT ON SOCIETY -- 5 Sport as a School for Democracy -- 5.1. INTRODUCTION -- 5.2. SMALL-SCALE, TIGHTLY BONDED, HORIZONTAL GROUPS -- 5.3. PARTICULARIZED AND GENERALIZED TRUST -- 5.4. POLITICAL EFFICACY -- 5.5. DISCIPLINED CITIZENS -- 6 Sport as an Impediment to Democratization -- 6.1. INTRODUCTION -- 6.2. DOCILITY -- 6.3. EXCLUSION -- 6.4. HOSTILITY -- 6.5. INEQUALITIES SPRINGING FROM MERITOCRATIC COMPETITION -- 7 The Cumulative Effect of Horizontal Mass Sport on Democratization -- 7.1. MEASUREMENT -- 7.2. OUTCOMES -- 7.3. THE USE OF HISTORICAL EVIDENCE -- 8 Sport and Society in Early Iron Age Greece -- 8.1. INTRODUCTION -- 8.2. SOCIAL HISTORY -- 8.3. SPORT HISTORY -- 8.4. SPORT AND SOCIETY IN EARLY IRON AGE GREECE -- 9 Sport and Society in Sixth- and Fifth-Century BCE Greece -- 9.1. SOCIAL HISTORY -- 9.2. SPORT IN ATHENS -- 9.3. SPORT IN SPARTA -- 9.4. THE EMERGENCE OF MASS SPORT -- 9.5. HORIZONTALITY AND VERTICALITY IN GREEK SPORT -- 10 Sport and Democratization in Sixth- and Fifth-Century BCE Greece -- 10.1. INTRODUCTION -- 10.2. SPORT AS AN ARENA OF MERITOCRATIC STATUS COMPETITION.
10.3. SPORT AS A MODEL OF AND FOR HORIZONTAL RELATIONSHIPS -- 10.4. SPORT AND GROUP CLOSURE -- 10.5. TRANSITION -- 11 Sport and Society in Britain from 1800 to 1840 -- 11.1. INTRODUCTION -- 11.2. BACKGROUND -- 11.3. SOCIAL HISTORY -- 11.4. EDUCATION -- 11.5. SPORT -- 12 Sport and Society in Britain from 1840 to 1870 -- 12.1. SOCIAL HISTORY -- 12.2. EDUCATION -- 12.3. SPORT -- 13 Sport in Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Germany -- 13.1. HISTORICAL OVERVIEW -- 13.2. EDUCATION -- 13.3. GYMNASTICS -- 13.4. OTHER FORMS OF SPORT -- 13.5. CONCLUSION -- 14 Sport and Society in Britain from 1870 to 1900 -- 14.1. SOCIAL HISTORY -- 14.2. EDUCATION -- 14.3. SPORT -- 15 Sport and Democratization in Nineteenth-Century Britain -- 15.1. INTRODUCTION -- 15.2. MERITOCRATIC STATUS COMPETITION, HORIZONTAL RELATIONSHIPS, AND GROUP CLOSURE -- 16 Mass Sport in the United States -- 17 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary: Explores the relationship between sport and democratization using sociological and historical methodologies and case studies of ancient Greece and nineteenth-century Britain.
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Cover -- Sport and Democracy in the Ancient and Modern Worlds -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Maps -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- A Note on the Title -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1. SETTING THE SCENE -- 1.2. LOOKING FORWARD -- 2 Terms and Concepts -- 2.1. DEMOCRATIZATION -- 2.2. MASS SPORT -- 2.3. HORIZONTAL AND VERTICAL SPORT -- 3 Previous Work Positing a Causal Relationship between Sport and Democratization -- 3.1. SOURCES OF SOCIAL ORDER -- 3.2. THE AMERICAN PROGRESSIVES -- 3.3. FUNCTIONALISM -- 3.4. CRITICAL SPORT SOCIOLOGY -- 3.5. ROBERT PUTNAM, SOCIAL CAPITAL, AND SPORT -- 4 Congruence between Society and Sport -- 4.1. THE IMPACT OF SOCIETY ON SPORT -- 4.2. THE IMPACT OF SPORT ON SOCIETY -- 5 Sport as a School for Democracy -- 5.1. INTRODUCTION -- 5.2. SMALL-SCALE, TIGHTLY BONDED, HORIZONTAL GROUPS -- 5.3. PARTICULARIZED AND GENERALIZED TRUST -- 5.4. POLITICAL EFFICACY -- 5.5. DISCIPLINED CITIZENS -- 6 Sport as an Impediment to Democratization -- 6.1. INTRODUCTION -- 6.2. DOCILITY -- 6.3. EXCLUSION -- 6.4. HOSTILITY -- 6.5. INEQUALITIES SPRINGING FROM MERITOCRATIC COMPETITION -- 7 The Cumulative Effect of Horizontal Mass Sport on Democratization -- 7.1. MEASUREMENT -- 7.2. OUTCOMES -- 7.3. THE USE OF HISTORICAL EVIDENCE -- 8 Sport and Society in Early Iron Age Greece -- 8.1. INTRODUCTION -- 8.2. SOCIAL HISTORY -- 8.3. SPORT HISTORY -- 8.4. SPORT AND SOCIETY IN EARLY IRON AGE GREECE -- 9 Sport and Society in Sixth- and Fifth-Century BCE Greece -- 9.1. SOCIAL HISTORY -- 9.2. SPORT IN ATHENS -- 9.3. SPORT IN SPARTA -- 9.4. THE EMERGENCE OF MASS SPORT -- 9.5. HORIZONTALITY AND VERTICALITY IN GREEK SPORT -- 10 Sport and Democratization in Sixth- and Fifth-Century BCE Greece -- 10.1. INTRODUCTION -- 10.2. SPORT AS AN ARENA OF MERITOCRATIC STATUS COMPETITION.

10.3. SPORT AS A MODEL OF AND FOR HORIZONTAL RELATIONSHIPS -- 10.4. SPORT AND GROUP CLOSURE -- 10.5. TRANSITION -- 11 Sport and Society in Britain from 1800 to 1840 -- 11.1. INTRODUCTION -- 11.2. BACKGROUND -- 11.3. SOCIAL HISTORY -- 11.4. EDUCATION -- 11.5. SPORT -- 12 Sport and Society in Britain from 1840 to 1870 -- 12.1. SOCIAL HISTORY -- 12.2. EDUCATION -- 12.3. SPORT -- 13 Sport in Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Germany -- 13.1. HISTORICAL OVERVIEW -- 13.2. EDUCATION -- 13.3. GYMNASTICS -- 13.4. OTHER FORMS OF SPORT -- 13.5. CONCLUSION -- 14 Sport and Society in Britain from 1870 to 1900 -- 14.1. SOCIAL HISTORY -- 14.2. EDUCATION -- 14.3. SPORT -- 15 Sport and Democratization in Nineteenth-Century Britain -- 15.1. INTRODUCTION -- 15.2. MERITOCRATIC STATUS COMPETITION, HORIZONTAL RELATIONSHIPS, AND GROUP CLOSURE -- 16 Mass Sport in the United States -- 17 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.

Explores the relationship between sport and democratization using sociological and historical methodologies and case studies of ancient Greece and nineteenth-century Britain.

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