Barbarians, Gentlemen and Players - A Sociological Study of the Development of Rugby Football

Informationen zum Autor Kenneth Sheard, Eric Dunning Zusammenfassung This revised edition of a classic text explores the development of rugby from a folk game into its modern forms. Updated with a substantial new foreword and epilogue. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I: Folk Antecedents and Transitional Forms of Football in the Public Schools 1. The folk antecedents of modern rugby and their decline 2. Football in the early 19th century public schools Part II: The Modernisation of Rugby Football 3. The preconditions for modernization: embourgeoisement and public school reform 4. The incipient modernization of rugby football 5. The 'civilising process' and the formation of the RFU. 6. The democratization of rugby football. 7. Professionalisation and the amateur response. 8. The split. 9. The class structure and the professionalisation of British sport. Part III: The Development of Rugby Football as a Modern Sport 10. The professionalisation of rugby league. 11. Rugby union as a modern sport: bureaucracy, gate-taking clubs and the swansong of amateurism. Conclusion: Sociological Reflections on the Crisis in Modern Sport

Product details

• Authors: Eric Dunning, Dunning Eric, Kenneth Sheard, Kenneth Dunning Sheard, Sheard Kenneth
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 17.12.2004
• EAN: 9780714653532
• ISBN: 978-0-7146-5353-2
• No. of pages: 332
• Series: Sport in the Global Society
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology; Sociology, SPORTS & RECREATION / General, history of sport