Barbarians, Gentlemen and Players: A Sociological Study of the Development of Rugby Football

ISBN-13: 9780714682907 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 336 str.

Eric Dunning; Kenneth Sheard

Opis

This revised edition of a classic sport studies text exploring the development of rugby from a folk game into its modern forms has been updated with a substantial new foreword and epilogue, to provide analysis of the developments in international

Spis treści

Part I: Folk Antecedents and Transitional Forms of Football in the Public Schools 1. The folk antecedents of modern rugby and their decline 2. Football in the early 19th century public schools Part II: The Modernisation of Rugby Football 3. The preconditions for modernization: embourgeoisement and public school reform 4. The incipient modernization of rugby football 5. The 'civilising process' and the formation of the RFU. 6. The democratization of rugby football. 7. Professionalisation and the amateur response. 8. The split. 9. The class structure and the professionalisation of British sport. Part III: The Development of Rugby Football as a Modern Sport 10. The professionalisation of rugby league. 11. Rugby union as a modern sport: bureaucracy, gate-taking clubs and the swansong of amateurism. Conclusion: Sociological Reflections on the Crisis in Modern Sport

O autorze

Kenneth Sheard, Eric Dunning