Sociological Versus Empiricist History

Some Comments on Tony Collins's ‘History, Theory and the “Civilizing Process”’

Bibliographic Data

ID12895347
AuthorsGraham Curry (corresponding author), Eric Dunning, Kenneth Sheard
Year2006
Volume26
Issue1
Pages110-123
Publication date2006-04-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueSport in History (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1746-0263 • E-ISSN: 1746-0271
PublisherRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/17460260600661315
OpenAlexW2009753363
LanguageEN
Citations received9

This article is a reply to Tony Collins's ‘History, Sociology and the “Civilizing Process”’ (Sport in History, vol 25, No 2, August 2005, pp 289–306). In it, we accept some of Collins's criticisms, eg that, in Barbarians, Gentlemen and Players (1979; 2005), Dunning and Sheard exaggerated the levels of violence in northern rugby in the 1890s and 1900s. For the most part, however, we argue that Collins's criticisms are misplaced and we present the systematic evidence which, we believe, supports our interpretations. We end with an exposition of Collins's misunderstandings of ‘figurational sociology’ and offer a restatement of some of the key propositions on which the ‘figurational’ position is based

Art history · Empiricism · Epistemology · Sociology · History · Philosophy · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts · Sports and Physical Education Studies · Sports, Gender, and Society

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