Thomas S Henricks
Biographic Data
| ID | 3923653 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Thomas S Henricks |
| GIVEN NAMES | Thomas S |
| FAMILY NAME | Henricks |
| SIGNATURE | HENRICKS T S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Elon University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 24 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Play and the Human Condition
This book brings together ways of considering play to probe its essential relationship to work, ritual, and communitas . The book examines the causes, consequences, and contexts of play. Focusing on five contexts for play—the psyche, the human body, the environment, society, and culture—the book identifies conditions that instigate play, and comments on its implications for those settings. The book explores how we learn about ourselves and the wo…
Play
Within the social sciences, play has been one of the most elusive phenomena to define and study. Some scholars have described play as a pattern of individual behavior or social interaction, which features contest, improvisation, and fantasy. Others have characterized play as a pattern of experience or awareness, so that some participants in a shared activity may be playing while others are not. Still other researchers have focused on cultural fra…
Play
Within the social sciences, play has been an especially difficult phenomenon to define and study. Some scholars have described play as a pattern of individual behavior or social interaction, which features competition, improvisation, and fantasy. Others have emphasized play as a pattern of experience or awareness. By that standard, some participants in a shared activity may be playing while others are not. Still other researchers have focused on …
Sugarball: The American Game, the Dominican Dream
Overview and origins - a brief history of the Dominical Republic Beisbol the poliitical economy of Dominican baseball the determinator - the under-development of Dominican baseball Wannabees - Rookies, the Academy and Avila Yo Soy Dominicano - hegemony and resitance through baseball Quisqueya Qulture - an ethnographic sketch of the stadium sugarball - a bittersweet game
Huizinga’s Legacy for Sports Studies
Johan Huizinga’s Homo Ludens: A Study of the Play-Element in Civilization has been recognized as a classic study of play. However, its implications for the study of sport have not been developed to their fullest extent. This paper reconsiders Huizinga’s model as an ideal type. It is argued that such a model unifies some work currently being done on sport and otherwise provides the basis for a far-reaching research agenda. In this spirit, a number…
The Democratization of Sport in Eighteenth‐Century England
Athleticism in the Victorian and Edwardian Public School. J. A. Mangan
Toward a General Theory of Alienation
In this paper, the author arranges some of the major treatments of alienation within a coherent framework. He introduces a distinction between disassociation (certain specified objective conditions) and alienation (a specified experience) and articulates the relationship between these two by presenting a series of intervening psychological issues. A typology of human association is presented; and it is argued that especially two types of disassoc…
Barbarians, Gentlemen and Players: A Sociological Study of the Development of Rugby Football.Eric Dunning , Kenneth Sheard
Ascending and Descending Meaning: A Theoretical Inquiry into Play and Ritual
The author introduces the dichotomy 'ascending-descending meaning' as a perspective for analyzing human relationships. After certain general considerations, this perspective is applied to two important forms of human activity-ritual and play. It is argued that the ascending-descending framework both clarifies the meaning of these two terms and directs attention to their important relationship to each other
From Ritual to Record: The Nature of Modern Sports.Allan Guttmann
Sport and Social Order: Contributions to the Sociology of Sport. Donald W. Ball , John W. Loy
Professional Wrestling as Moral Order
This paper treats structuralist and interactionist perspectives as complementary in an approach to the dynamics of professional wrestling as a social scene. Both directive or formulating aspects of culture as it is specified for social life and the creativity of human agents in negotiating such constraints from the viewpoint of their particularistic interests are emphasized in an examination of the confirmation and negotiation of identities, the …
Play and the Human Condition
This book brings together ways of considering play to probe its essential relationship to work, ritual, and communitas . The book examines the causes, consequences, and contexts of play. Focusing on five contexts for play—the psyche, the human body, the environment, society, and culture—the book identifies conditions that instigate play, and comments on its implications for those settings. The book explores how we learn about ourselves and the wo…
Professional Wrestling as Moral Order
This paper treats structuralist and interactionist perspectives as complementary in an approach to the dynamics of professional wrestling as a social scene. Both directive or formulating aspects of culture as it is specified for social life and the creativity of human agents in negotiating such constraints from the viewpoint of their particularistic interests are emphasized in an examination of the confirmation and negotiation of identities, the …
Ascending and Descending Meaning: A Theoretical Inquiry into Play and Ritual
The author introduces the dichotomy 'ascending-descending meaning' as a perspective for analyzing human relationships. After certain general considerations, this perspective is applied to two important forms of human activity-ritual and play. It is argued that the ascending-descending framework both clarifies the meaning of these two terms and directs attention to their important relationship to each other
Professional Wrestling as Moral Order
This paper treats structuralist and interactionist perspectives as complementary in an approach to the dynamics of professional wrestling as a social scene. Both directive or formulating aspects of culture as it is specified for social life and the creativity of human agents in negotiating such constraints from the viewpoint of their particularistic interests are emphasized in an examination of the confirmation and negotiation of identities, the …
Sport and Social Order: Contributions to the Sociology of Sport. Donald W. Ball , John W. Loy
Ascending and Descending Meaning: A Theoretical Inquiry into Play and Ritual
The author introduces the dichotomy 'ascending-descending meaning' as a perspective for analyzing human relationships. After certain general considerations, this perspective is applied to two important forms of human activity-ritual and play. It is argued that the ascending-descending framework both clarifies the meaning of these two terms and directs attention to their important relationship to each other
From Ritual to Record: The Nature of Modern Sports.Allan Guttmann
Barbarians, Gentlemen and Players: A Sociological Study of the Development of Rugby Football.Eric Dunning , Kenneth Sheard
Toward a General Theory of Alienation
In this paper, the author arranges some of the major treatments of alienation within a coherent framework. He introduces a distinction between disassociation (certain specified objective conditions) and alienation (a specified experience) and articulates the relationship between these two by presenting a series of intervening psychological issues. A typology of human association is presented; and it is argued that especially two types of disassoc…
Athleticism in the Victorian and Edwardian Public School. J. A. Mangan
The Democratization of Sport in Eighteenth‐Century England
Huizinga’s Legacy for Sports Studies
Johan Huizinga’s Homo Ludens: A Study of the Play-Element in Civilization has been recognized as a classic study of play. However, its implications for the study of sport have not been developed to their fullest extent. This paper reconsiders Huizinga’s model as an ideal type. It is argued that such a model unifies some work currently being done on sport and otherwise provides the basis for a far-reaching research agenda. In this spirit, a number…
Sugarball: The American Game, the Dominican Dream
Overview and origins - a brief history of the Dominical Republic Beisbol the poliitical economy of Dominican baseball the determinator - the under-development of Dominican baseball Wannabees - Rookies, the Academy and Avila Yo Soy Dominicano - hegemony and resitance through baseball Quisqueya Qulture - an ethnographic sketch of the stadium sugarball - a bittersweet game
Play
Within the social sciences, play has been an especially difficult phenomenon to define and study. Some scholars have described play as a pattern of individual behavior or social interaction, which features competition, improvisation, and fantasy. Others have emphasized play as a pattern of experience or awareness. By that standard, some participants in a shared activity may be playing while others are not. Still other researchers have focused on …
Play and the Human Condition
This book brings together ways of considering play to probe its essential relationship to work, ritual, and communitas . The book examines the causes, consequences, and contexts of play. Focusing on five contexts for play—the psyche, the human body, the environment, society, and culture—the book identifies conditions that instigate play, and comments on its implications for those settings. The book explores how we learn about ourselves and the wo…
Play
Within the social sciences, play has been one of the most elusive phenomena to define and study. Some scholars have described play as a pattern of individual behavior or social interaction, which features contest, improvisation, and fantasy. Others have characterized play as a pattern of experience or awareness, so that some participants in a shared activity may be playing while others are not. Still other researchers have focused on cultural fra…
Sociology (11 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Epistemology (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Sports, Gender, and Society (6 works) · Aesthetics (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Social Psychology (5 works)