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Sport, Time and Society

British at Play
Buch | Hardcover
240 Seiten
1991
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-415-00766-5 (ISBN)
CHF 74,20 inkl. MwSt
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Arguing that organized sport in Britain began as a means of controlling working men's leisure time as industry dominated their working hours, this study traces the rise of organized sport, its impact upon social patterns and gender roles, and the social problems it has spawned today.
In Britain's history, work and leisure have always been yoked together. Until the Reformation, the working year was peppered with Saint's days and ancient pre-Christian festivals. No puritan ethic of godly work could dent the British addiction to pleasure, and even when the Industrial Revolution broke the old cycle, workers created their own festivals. Employers and moralists came to accept the need for leisure, but they preferred the chaotic, often anarchic quality of traditional pastimes which were closely linked to drunkenness and immorality. Organized sport provided spectacle, discipline and orderly participation, a perfect means of controlling men's leisure time as industrial society dominated their working hours. The control of women was achieved by other less subtle means. What began as a means of control became a source of true pleasure and delight for working men: a liberation from daily life, replete with heroes and passionate loyalties.
Dennis Brailsford traces the rise and transformation of organized sport, its impact upon social patterns and gender roles, and suggests that today sport is recreating some of the social ills it was first designed to cure more than a century ago.
Erscheint lt. Verlag 10.1.1991
Zusatzinfo illustrations, 29 b&w photographs
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Gewicht 540 g
Themenwelt Sachbuch/Ratgeber Sport
Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Kulturgeschichte
Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Sozialgeschichte
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Mikrosoziologie
ISBN-10 0-415-00766-6 / 0415007666
ISBN-13 978-0-415-00766-5 / 9780415007665
Zustand Neuware
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