John W Loy
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 202741 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | John W Loy |
| NOMBRES | John W |
| APELLIDO | Loy |
| FIRMA | LOY J W |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Otago |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 34 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 35 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 33 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1966 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2019 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
The Agon Motif
The contest element of modern sport has its ancient roots in the "agon" of early Greek life. We begin with an overview of the material and historical continuities in the social development of sport, followed by a discussion of our suppositions regarding the original linkage of sport and war in terms of what we call "the agon motif", and conclude with speculations about residuals of the agon motif in modern sport. We argue it is important to recog…
Moral Careers
Goffman first formulated the concept of a moral career in 1959. Harré, however, provides the best definition of the concept, defining moral career as “the stages of acquisition or loss of honor and the respect due from other people as one passes through various systems of hazard characteristic of different social worlds.” He incorporates the concept of moral career into both a theory of social psychology and a theory of individual psychology. Har…
Sport
Sport is an embodied, structured, goal‐oriented, competitive, contest‐based, ludic, physical activity. Given the multitude of sport forms and the vast variety of specific sports, ranging from rural, primitive athletic folk games of old, to new urban, hi‐tech, extreme sports, this definition is unlikely to satisfy one and all. It does, however, (1) highlight the major social characteristics of modern sport; (2) suggest the specification of the emb…
Assessing the sociology of sport
On the 50th anniversary of the ISSA and IRSS, key foundational scholar in the sociology of sport John Loy assesses the development of the field by focusing on larger questions of theory and methodological tactics. Loy characterizes key stages of development in reflecting on the trajectory of the field. He considers the 'universals and particulars' in considering the sociology of sport's station within the social sciences and humanities. In assess…
Sport
Sport is an embodied, structured, goal‐oriented, competitive, contest‐based, ludic, physical activity. Given the multitude of sport forms and the vast variety of specific sports, ranging from rural, primitive athletic folk games of old, to new urban, hi tech, extreme sports, this definition is unlikely to satisfy one‐and‐all. It does, however, (1) highlight the major social characteristics of modern sport; (2) suggest the specification of the emb…
Consciousness, Craft, Commitment
A prominent critic of American life and the orthodoxies of American sociology in the 1950s, C. Wright Mills today wears the mantle of the father of radical sociology (Scimecca, 1977, p. 111). Summing up Mills’ life and work, Eldridge (1983, p. 112) pays tribute to his “innovative work in the sociology of knowledge”1 and his intellectual influence on his contemporaries. He also acknowledges the range of studies completed by Mills “in what was, aft…
Social Structure and Social Theory
Many sociologists argue that “structural-functionalism” was the dominant theoretical perspective in sociology between the late 1930s and the early 1960s, especially in North America. From the perspective of sport sociology, Jarvie and Maguire contend that structural-functionalism “played a key part in the early development of the sociology of sport in North America and on both sides of what was then the European ‘iron curtain’ ” (1994, p. 5). Alt…
Functionalism, Sport and Society
An explication of the philosophical premises underlying “leisure and culture
(1998). An explication of the philosophical premises underlying “leisure and culture: Issues for an anthropology of leisure”. Leisure Sciences: Vol. 20, No. 2, pp. 135-141
Sociology of Sport
Combative Sport and Warfare
In his classic 1973 study, Richard Sipes used a cross-cultural sample to examine the relationship between combative sport and warfare. He found that combat sport and war tended to co-occur, thus supporting a spillover hypothesis, rather than a catharsis hypothesis. However, his sample was small (n = 20) and composed of outliers—societies that were either extremely warlike or extremely peaceful-and did not address a current concern in cross-cultur…
The Effects of Formal Structure on Leadership Recruitment
The relationship between positional placement and team captaincy was examined for a population of 27 New Zealand provincial rugby teams for the years 1984, 1988, and 1992 (N = 76 player captains). Results revealed that the two most spatially central positions (i.e., No. 8 and halfback) accounted for 35.5% of the captains (n = 27), whereas, the three most peripheral spatial positions (i.e., center, wing and fullback) did not yield a single captain…
A Personal Reminiscence of Charles Hunt Page (1909–1992)
Aphorisms and the Advancement of Learning
Effects of Formal Structure on Managerial Recruitment
This paper replicates Grusky’s (1963) study of the playing position-leadership recruitment relationship among North American professional baseball clubs in a different cultural context, comparing it to Japanese professional base-ball organizations over a 40-year period. Overall, the Japanese results are consistent with the North American findings, with the more central or high interaction positions contributing more leaders or field managers. How…
A Comparison of Suicide-Dip Effects of Major Sport Events and Civil Holidays
Recent research has shown that there are “death dips” for suicide around major ceremonial occasions, and for certain public holidays in particular. This research suggests that the suicide-dip phenomenon is caused by increased social integration associated with such occasions. Elsewhere in the literature, sociological interpretations of major sport events indicate that they, too, serve as ceremonial occasions and play an integrative role in societ…
Managerial Succession and Team Effectiveness
Data from major league professional baseball teams in Japan, for the period 1950 to 1975, were employed to test the generality of findings on managerial succession and team effectiveness from the North American case. The results show little support for the most common pattern from North American studies, that there is a negative relationship between managerial succession and team effectiveness. The strongest pattern in the results was that of a r…
Media Sport
Marshall McLuhan's revolutionary ideas about the role of media in society established him as the prophet of what he terms "the electric age" and had a major impact upon the field of communication. According to McLuhan, understanding media means understanding society, for the two are so closely related that societies can in fact be characterized by the media form most prevalent in them. McLuhan's books are packed with fascinating contentions about…
An Exploratory Analysis of the Scholarly Productivity of North American Based Sport Sociologists
This study identified 100 North American based authors who have contributed 658 publications to the sociology of sport literature during the past decade. An analysis of the productivity patterns of these authors produced a perfect Bradford Distribution comprising ten core authors having fifteen or more publications each and accounting for over forty percent of all published work surveyed. In conclusion, findings of this study: 1. Provide insight …
Athletic Personnel in the Academic Marketplace
The connection between organizational prestige and career contingencies is well documented with respect to the academic stratification system in American higher education. The purpose of this study was to ascertain whether the relationship between organizational prestige and career mobility of scholars obtains in the case of another group of individuals in the academic community. namely, college coaches. Findings showed a close relationship betwe…
Positional Segregation in Professional Baseball
The results of previous studies of "stacking" by race in U.S. professional baseball are juxtaposed. The findings give several replications of the results recently reported for a more modest data base by Medoff (1977) in this Review. The comparative find ings show: (a) that there has consistently been a "stacking" pattern, of an under- representation of Blacks at central playing positions and an over-representation of whites at these positions, re…
Geographical Mobility Patterns of College Coaches
Sport and Social Order
Replacement Processes in Sport Organizations
Secondary Schools and Ivy League Letters
Social Psychological Characteristics of Innovators
Sportsmen differentially adopting a technological innovation were assigned to one of four adopter categories. Multiple discriminant function analysis showed these categories to be empirically distinct in terms of selected socio-psychological characteristics and revealed that only one subject had been misclassified. The most discriminating variables in order of power were venturesomeness, professional status, imaginativeness, educational status, d…
Sport
Sport is an embodied, structured, goal‐oriented, competitive, contest‐based, ludic, physical activity. Given the multitude of sport forms and the vast variety of specific sports, ranging from rural, primitive athletic folk games of old, to new urban, hi tech, extreme sports, this definition is unlikely to satisfy one‐and‐all. It does, however, (1) highlight the major social characteristics of modern sport; (2) suggest the specification of the emb…
Combative Sport and Warfare
In his classic 1973 study, Richard Sipes used a cross-cultural sample to examine the relationship between combative sport and warfare. He found that combat sport and war tended to co-occur, thus supporting a spillover hypothesis, rather than a catharsis hypothesis. However, his sample was small (n = 20) and composed of outliers—societies that were either extremely warlike or extremely peaceful-and did not address a current concern in cross-cultur…
The Agon Motif
The contest element of modern sport has its ancient roots in the "agon" of early Greek life. We begin with an overview of the material and historical continuities in the social development of sport, followed by a discussion of our suppositions regarding the original linkage of sport and war in terms of what we call "the agon motif", and conclude with speculations about residuals of the agon motif in modern sport. We argue it is important to recog…
Effects of Formal Structure on Managerial Recruitment
This paper replicates Grusky’s (1963) study of the playing position-leadership recruitment relationship among North American professional baseball clubs in a different cultural context, comparing it to Japanese professional base-ball organizations over a 40-year period. Overall, the Japanese results are consistent with the North American findings, with the more central or high interaction positions contributing more leaders or field managers. How…
Secondary Schools and Ivy League Letters
Sport, Culture, and Society
An explication of the philosophical premises underlying “leisure and culture
(1998). An explication of the philosophical premises underlying “leisure and culture: Issues for an anthropology of leisure”. Leisure Sciences: Vol. 20, No. 2, pp. 135-141
The Effects of Formal Structure on Leadership Recruitment
The relationship between positional placement and team captaincy was examined for a population of 27 New Zealand provincial rugby teams for the years 1984, 1988, and 1992 (N = 76 player captains). Results revealed that the two most spatially central positions (i.e., No. 8 and halfback) accounted for 35.5% of the captains (n = 27), whereas, the three most peripheral spatial positions (i.e., center, wing and fullback) did not yield a single captain…
Aphorisms and the Advancement of Learning
Geographical Mobility Patterns of College Coaches
A Paradigm of Technological Change in the Sports Situation
An Information Retrieval System for Sport Sociologists
Social Psychological Characteristics of Innovators
Sportsmen differentially adopting a technological innovation were assigned to one of four adopter categories. Multiple discriminant function analysis showed these categories to be empirically distinct in terms of selected socio-psychological characteristics and revealed that only one subject had been misclassified. The most discriminating variables in order of power were venturesomeness, professional status, imaginativeness, educational status, d…
Racial Segregation in American Sport
Sport, Culture, and Society
Sport, Culture and Society
Social Origins and Occupational Mobility Patterns of a Selected Sample of American Athletes
The Social System of Sport
The Structure of Ludic Action
Replacement Processes in Sport Organizations
Secondary Schools and Ivy League Letters
Sport and Social Order
Athletic Personnel in the Academic Marketplace
The connection between organizational prestige and career contingencies is well documented with respect to the academic stratification system in American higher education. The purpose of this study was to ascertain whether the relationship between organizational prestige and career mobility of scholars obtains in the case of another group of individuals in the academic community. namely, college coaches. Findings showed a close relationship betwe…
Positional Segregation in Professional Baseball
The results of previous studies of "stacking" by race in U.S. professional baseball are juxtaposed. The findings give several replications of the results recently reported for a more modest data base by Medoff (1977) in this Review. The comparative find ings show: (a) that there has consistently been a "stacking" pattern, of an under- representation of Blacks at central playing positions and an over-representation of whites at these positions, re…
Geographical Mobility Patterns of College Coaches
Media Sport
Marshall McLuhan's revolutionary ideas about the role of media in society established him as the prophet of what he terms "the electric age" and had a major impact upon the field of communication. According to McLuhan, understanding media means understanding society, for the two are so closely related that societies can in fact be characterized by the media form most prevalent in them. McLuhan's books are packed with fascinating contentions about…
An Exploratory Analysis of the Scholarly Productivity of North American Based Sport Sociologists
This study identified 100 North American based authors who have contributed 658 publications to the sociology of sport literature during the past decade. An analysis of the productivity patterns of these authors produced a perfect Bradford Distribution comprising ten core authors having fifteen or more publications each and accounting for over forty percent of all published work surveyed. In conclusion, findings of this study: 1. Provide insight …
A Comparison of Suicide-Dip Effects of Major Sport Events and Civil Holidays
Recent research has shown that there are “death dips” for suicide around major ceremonial occasions, and for certain public holidays in particular. This research suggests that the suicide-dip phenomenon is caused by increased social integration associated with such occasions. Elsewhere in the literature, sociological interpretations of major sport events indicate that they, too, serve as ceremonial occasions and play an integrative role in societ…
Managerial Succession and Team Effectiveness
Data from major league professional baseball teams in Japan, for the period 1950 to 1975, were employed to test the generality of findings on managerial succession and team effectiveness from the North American case. The results show little support for the most common pattern from North American studies, that there is a negative relationship between managerial succession and team effectiveness. The strongest pattern in the results was that of a r…
Aphorisms and the Advancement of Learning
Effects of Formal Structure on Managerial Recruitment
This paper replicates Grusky’s (1963) study of the playing position-leadership recruitment relationship among North American professional baseball clubs in a different cultural context, comparing it to Japanese professional base-ball organizations over a 40-year period. Overall, the Japanese results are consistent with the North American findings, with the more central or high interaction positions contributing more leaders or field managers. How…
A Personal Reminiscence of Charles Hunt Page (1909–1992)
The Effects of Formal Structure on Leadership Recruitment
The relationship between positional placement and team captaincy was examined for a population of 27 New Zealand provincial rugby teams for the years 1984, 1988, and 1992 (N = 76 player captains). Results revealed that the two most spatially central positions (i.e., No. 8 and halfback) accounted for 35.5% of the captains (n = 27), whereas, the three most peripheral spatial positions (i.e., center, wing and fullback) did not yield a single captain…
Sociology of Sport
Combative Sport and Warfare
In his classic 1973 study, Richard Sipes used a cross-cultural sample to examine the relationship between combative sport and warfare. He found that combat sport and war tended to co-occur, thus supporting a spillover hypothesis, rather than a catharsis hypothesis. However, his sample was small (n = 20) and composed of outliers—societies that were either extremely warlike or extremely peaceful-and did not address a current concern in cross-cultur…
Sociology (24 obras) · Sports, Gender, and Society (20 obras) · Psychology (19 obras) · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts (15 obras) · Epistemology (14 obras) · Political science (14 obras) · Social science (14 obras) · Philosophy (13 obras) · Medicine (9 obras) · Sports Analytics and Performance (9 obras)