Sport in Space and Time

Civilizing Processes', Trajectories of State-Formation and the Development of Modern Sport

Bibliographic Data

ID2379355
AuthorsEric Dunning (University of Leicester, corresponding author)
Year1994
Volume29
Issue4
Pages331-345
Publication date1994-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueInternational Review for the Sociology of Sport (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1012-6902 • E-ISSN: 1461-7218
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/101269029402900402
OpenAlexW2165708340
LanguageEN
Citations received8
References cited13

This paper is primarily about sport in the 'civilizing process' in Norbert Elias's sense of that term (1939; 1978a; 1982). It is divided into two broad sections which are entitled: (i) Aspects of Time, Space and the Sociology of Sport and (ii) Aspects of Sport in the Civilizing Processes of Western Europe. Section 1 involves a discussion of some complex conceptual, theoretical and methodological issues, together with a critique of the ways in which some historians, philosophers and philosophically-orientated sociologists have conceptualized 'space' and 'time'. This first section both starts and finishes with a consideration of sport-related issues. Section 2 involves an attempt to explain why specifically modern forms of sport developed first of all in England. Light is shed on this issue by means of a comparative and developmental analysis focused on the differential trajectories of state-formation of the emergent nation-states of Western Europe

Epistemology · Social science · Sociology · Sociology of sport · Philosophy · Sociology and Norbert Elias · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts · Sports, Gender, and Society

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