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Class, sports, and social development

In noting the considerable recent work on the sociology of sport, the author argues that much of this analysis has been marked by a withdrawal from sociology's classical tradition. He attempts to recover that tradition and redirect significant aspects of it by focusing on the central questions of human agency and freedom in the development of sport in Western capitalism. The argument moves from a critical discussion of the strengths and weaknesses of such writers as Thorstein Veblen, Johan Huizinga, Michael Novak, Jean-Marie Brohm, Allen Guttmann, and Clifford Geertz to a more substantive discussion of the social development of Canadian sport. Gruneau shows how the emerging structures of meanings of sports in Canada were greatly influenced by struggles between social classes and fragments of social classes, and by Canada's history as a dependent state. He concludes with a discussion of the complex and contradictory relationships between sport and competing ideologies in advanced capitalism.

Uitgever(s): The University of Massachusetts Press,

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Richard Gruneau

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sportsociologie

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