Sport-- Commerce-- Culture: Essays on Sport in Late Capitalist America
- ISBN-10
- 082047438X
- ISBN-13
- 9780820474380
- Category
- Sports
- Pages
- 161
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2006
- Publisher
- Peter Lang
- Author
- David L. Andrews
Description
This collection of eight critical sociological essays by David L. Andrews on sport and culture is heavily influenced by the work of C. Wright Mills, which insisted on the need to anchor any examination of social existence within the historical moment and conditions that frame it.
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