M Kenneth Brody
Biographic Data
| ID | 149179 |
|---|---|
| NAME | M Kenneth Brody |
| GIVEN NAMES | M Kenneth |
| FAMILY NAME | Brody |
| SIGNATURE | BRODY M K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Drake University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Yankee City and the Bicentennial
The social-anthropological studies of 'Yankee City' by W. Lloyd Warner are reconsidered, with concentration on his taxonomy of symbolic activities. Several of Warner's central analytic foci are reviewed and applied to a modern context. The American Revolution Bicentennial is characterized as a societal-level symbolic observance, directly analogous to civil ceremonies in Yankee City. Three major themes from Warner's studies of that community's sym…
Studies in Intellectual Breakthrough
Institutionalized Sport as Quasi-Religion
This paper considers the phenomenon of institutionalized sport from a sociology of religion perspective, with the intention of providing a systematic basis for the frequent but often too-facile analogies drawn between sport and religion. Sensitizing dimensions are drawn from sport in order to render this complex phenomenon more amenable to conceptual analysis. Several prominent sociological definitions of religion are introduced, and institutiona…
Institutionalized Sport as Quasi-Religion
This paper considers the phenomenon of institutionalized sport from a sociology of religion perspective, with the intention of providing a systematic basis for the frequent but often too-facile analogies drawn between sport and religion. Sensitizing dimensions are drawn from sport in order to render this complex phenomenon more amenable to conceptual analysis. Several prominent sociological definitions of religion are introduced, and institutiona…
Yankee City and the Bicentennial
The social-anthropological studies of 'Yankee City' by W. Lloyd Warner are reconsidered, with concentration on his taxonomy of symbolic activities. Several of Warner's central analytic foci are reviewed and applied to a modern context. The American Revolution Bicentennial is characterized as a societal-level symbolic observance, directly analogous to civil ceremonies in Yankee City. Three major themes from Warner's studies of that community's sym…
Institutionalized Sport as Quasi-Religion
This paper considers the phenomenon of institutionalized sport from a sociology of religion perspective, with the intention of providing a systematic basis for the frequent but often too-facile analogies drawn between sport and religion. Sensitizing dimensions are drawn from sport in order to render this complex phenomenon more amenable to conceptual analysis. Several prominent sociological definitions of religion are introduced, and institutiona…
Studies in Intellectual Breakthrough
Yankee City and the Bicentennial
The social-anthropological studies of 'Yankee City' by W. Lloyd Warner are reconsidered, with concentration on his taxonomy of symbolic activities. Several of Warner's central analytic foci are reviewed and applied to a modern context. The American Revolution Bicentennial is characterized as a societal-level symbolic observance, directly analogous to civil ceremonies in Yankee City. Three major themes from Warner's studies of that community's sym…
Psychology (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · American Constitutional Law and Politics (1 works) · American History and Culture (1 works) · Computer Science (1 works) · Doping in Sports (1 works) · Epistemology (1 works) · Everyday life (1 works) · Mormonism, Religion, and History (1 works) · Perspective (graphical (1 works)