Globalization and Football - Couverture souple

Giulianotti, Richard; Robertson, Roland

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1412921287 ISBN 13 : 9781412921282

Editeur : SAGE Publications Ltd, 2009

Synopsis

This timely book provides an engaging, clear view of the interrelationships within key globalization processes and the international sport of football.

Intelligently combining the conceptual and methodological aspects of global studies with the specific cultural conditions of the 'beautiful game' Giulianotti and Robertson illuminate its social history and diffusion, as well as wider cultural, economic, political and social dimensions.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Richard Giulianotti is Professor in the School of Applied Social Sciences at Durham University. His research interests are in sport, globalization, crime and deviance, popular culture, qualitative research methods and social theory. He has published several books on various aspects of sport, particularly its international dimensions.

Roland Robertson is Professor of Sociology at the University of Pittsburgh. His books include International Systems and the Modernization of Societies (with J P Nettl, 1968) The Sociological Interpretation of Religion (1970) Meaning and Change: Explorations in the Cultural Sociology of Modern Societies (1978), Religion and Global Order (co-edited with William R Garrett, 1991) and Talcott Parsons: Theorist of Modernity (co-edited with Bryan S Turner

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

Engaging analysis the of the process of globalization and its impact on the world's most popular sport.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: SAGE Publications Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2009
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1412921287
• ISBN 13: 9781412921282
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 199
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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