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Quest for Excitement: Sport and Leisure in the Civilizing Process

Norbert Elias, Eric Dunning

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Norbert Elias, 1897-1990 Note on the text Introduction, Norbert Elias The Quest for Excitement in Leisure, Norbert Elias and Eric Dunning Leisure in the Sparetime Spectrum, Norbert Elias and Eric Dunning The Genesis of Sport as a Sociological Problem, Part 1, Norbert Elias The Genesis of Sport as a Sociological Problem, Part 2, Norbert Elias An Essay on Sport and Violence, Norbert Elias Folk Football in Medieval and Early Modern Britain, Norbert Elias and Eric Dunning Dynamics of Sport Groups with Special Reference to Football, Norbert Elias and Eric Dunning The Dynamics of Modern Sport: Notes on Achievement-Striving and the Social Significance of Sport, Eric Dunning Social Bonding and Violence in Sport, Eric Dunning Sport as a Male Preserve: Notes on the Social Sources of Masculine Identity and its Transformations, Eric Dunning Football Hooliganism as an Emergent Global Idiom, Eric Dunning Appendix Bibliography Index.

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Norbert Elias, 1897-1990 Note on the text Introduction, Norbert Elias The Quest for Excitement in Leisure, Norbert Elias and Eric Dunning Leisure in the Sparetime Spectrum, Norbert Elias and Eric Dunning The Genesis of Sport as a Sociological Problem, Part 1, Norbert Elias The Genesis of Sport as a Sociological Problem, Part 2, Norbert Elias An Essay on Sport and Violence, Norbert Elias Folk Football in Medieval and Early Modern Britain, Norbert Elias and Eric Dunning Dynamics of Sport Groups with Special Reference to Football, Norbert Elias and Eric Dunning The Dynamics of Modern Sport: Notes on Achievement-Striving and the Social Significance of Sport, Eric Dunning Social Bonding and Violence in Sport, Eric Dunning Sport as a Male Preserve: Notes on the Social Sources of Masculine Identity and its Transformations, Eric Dunning Football Hooliganism as an Emergent Global Idiom, Eric Dunning Appendix Bibliography Index.

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Norbert Elias, 1897-1990 Note on the text Introduction, Norbert Elias The Quest for Excitement in Leisure, Norbert Elias and Eric Dunning Leisure in the Sparetime Spectrum, Norbert Elias and Eric Dunning The Genesis of Sport as a Sociological Problem, Part 1, Norbert Elias The Genesis of Sport as a Sociological Problem, Part 2, Norbert Elias An Essay on Sport and Violence, Norbert Elias Folk Football in Medieval and Early Modern Britain, Norbert Elias and Eric Dunning Dynamics of Sport Groups with Special Reference to Football, Norbert Elias and Eric Dunning The Dynamics of Modern Sport: Notes on Achievement-Striving and the Social Significance of Sport, Eric Dunning Social Bonding and Violence in Sport, Eric Dunning Sport as a Male Preserve: Notes on the Social Sources of Masculine Identity and its Transformations, Eric Dunning Football Hooliganism as an Emergent Global Idiom, Eric Dunning Appendix Bibliography Index.

Key concepts: Football, Sociology, Identity (music), Humanities, Psychoanalysis, History, Philosophy, Psychology

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