tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4058766287077382431.post5775391466586527054..comments2024-03-13T04:57:22.459-04:00Comments on Understanding Society: Sociology of soccer?Dan Littlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15953897221283103880noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4058766287077382431.post-316630661703102992013-07-26T17:51:12.117-04:002013-07-26T17:51:12.117-04:00The Elias literature is interesting though much of...The Elias literature is interesting though much of this work seems to be about playing football. But what seems particularly pertinent today is the sheer number of people watching and consuming it. Lash and Lury conceptualise the Euro 96 tournament as a kind of culture industry. I wonder whether the term 'culture industry' - whether it be Adorno's modernist version or Lash and Lury's postmodern take- might be an instructive way of theorizing contemporary football? Think of the role of sky sports in shaping the English premier league for example. It may also provide an interesting and provocative theoretical entrance point into thinking about the consumers ('fans') of football and the commodification of all aspects of the game. A nice non-sociological book that got me thinking about all of this is 'Richer than God' by an investigative English journalist David Conn. He describes the buying-out of Manchester City FC by the multi-billionaire consortia Abu Dhabi United and the effort to transform them through sheer financial impetus from an essentially local club into a global brand. As a fan of Manchester City Conn is disenchanted with this shift and one cannot help but feel in reading the book a sense of loss - brought about, if you will, by a shift from the sacred to the profane. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07696202541467385819noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4058766287077382431.post-36454611526006325012013-03-15T07:44:17.357-04:002013-03-15T07:44:17.357-04:00soccer is truly the game of the world many millio...soccer is truly the game of the world many millions of die hard fans of soccer around the globe.kids soccer uniformshttp://mysocceruniform.com/customsocceruniforms.htmlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4058766287077382431.post-55308910177524376722013-03-01T10:12:13.278-05:002013-03-01T10:12:13.278-05:00Bourdieu he was not only a theorist of sport but a...Bourdieu he was not only a theorist of sport but also a practioner - he played rugby. Another sociologist interested in sport and especially football was Norbert Elias. When Bourdieu started his journal (Actes de la recherche en sciences sociales) one of the first articles he wanted to publish was a translation of Norbert Elias' "An essay on sport and violence". <br /><br />Elias' other articles include: <br />Dynamics of Group Sports with Special Reference to Football;<br />The Genesis of Sport as a Sociological Problem;<br />Folk Football in Medieval and Early Modern Britain.<br /><br />These were collected in: <br /><br />Elias, N., & Dunning, E. (1986). Quest for excitement: sport and leisure in the civilizing process. Oxford, New York: B. Blackwell.<br />Marcinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10689244798281824760noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4058766287077382431.post-45445535689729547212013-03-01T10:05:36.695-05:002013-03-01T10:05:36.695-05:00Bourdieu he was not only a theorist of sport but a...Bourdieu he was not only a theorist of sport but also a practitioner - he played rugby. Another sociologist interested in sport and especially football was Norbert Elias. When Bourdieu started his journal (Actes de la recherche en sciences sociales) one of the first articles he wanted to publish was a translation of Norbert Elias's "An essay on sport and violence". <br /><br />Elias' other articles include: <br />Dynamics of Group Sports with Special Reference to Football;<br />The Genesis of Sport as a Sociological Problem;<br />Folk Football in Medieval and Early Modern Britain<br /><br />These where collected in: <br /><br />Elias, N., & Dunning, E. (1986). Quest for excitement: sport and leisure in the civilizing process (p. 22). Oxford, New York: B. Blackwell. Marcinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10689244798281824760noreply@blogger.com