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David Jary - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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anthony giddens structuration theory and sport and leisure
Sport and modern social theorists, 2004Co-Authors: John Home, David JaryAbstract:Anthony Giddens has been described as ‘the most prominent British Sociologist of our time’. For Lemert (1999, p. 183), ‘he may well be the sociological social theorist who has most radically, and successfully, revised the language of social science’. Since 1971, Giddens has written or edited over 30 books. There are literally thousands of articles and chapters, as well as around a dozen full-length books, discussing and applying his work and he has become the most cited Contemporary Sociologist. His work has been taken up and applied across the social sciences. His conception of ‘The Third Way’, influenced the ‘New’ Labour Government of Tony Blair and has been courted by Former US President Clinton and an array of European leaders. In 1999 he presented the prestigious Reith Lectures on BBC Radio on the theme of globalization. It is apparent that Giddens has established himself as a prominent ‘public intellectual’ and a world Sociologist (see also Bryant & Jary, 2000). In this chapter we set out to consider the existing and potential contribution of Structuration Theory and the writings of Anthony Giddens to understanding the role of sport and leisure in late modern, global society.
Kevin Dixon - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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a third way for football fandom research anthony giddens and structuration theory
Soccer & Society, 2011Co-Authors: Kevin DixonAbstract:Although football fans actively discuss all of the ‘big players’ within their practice, the same cannot be said for Sociologists of sport. Anthony Giddens is a world renowned intellectual and author of some of the most predominant sociological texts of the last millennium. He is the most frequently cited Contemporary Sociologist spanning all aspects of the social sciences, and yet his work is seldom referred to or used within the sociology of sport. In response to this and in reaction to calls from authors such as Williams to re‐think football fandom, this article aims to explore the potential of Giddens ‘Structuration Theory’ (ST) for moving the sociology of sport closer towards meeting this end. It draws on in‐depth qualitative interviews with thirty football fans. The findings of these and their implications are discussed in relation to the ‘everyday’ processes of fandom.
John Home - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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anthony giddens structuration theory and sport and leisure
Sport and modern social theorists, 2004Co-Authors: John Home, David JaryAbstract:Anthony Giddens has been described as ‘the most prominent British Sociologist of our time’. For Lemert (1999, p. 183), ‘he may well be the sociological social theorist who has most radically, and successfully, revised the language of social science’. Since 1971, Giddens has written or edited over 30 books. There are literally thousands of articles and chapters, as well as around a dozen full-length books, discussing and applying his work and he has become the most cited Contemporary Sociologist. His work has been taken up and applied across the social sciences. His conception of ‘The Third Way’, influenced the ‘New’ Labour Government of Tony Blair and has been courted by Former US President Clinton and an array of European leaders. In 1999 he presented the prestigious Reith Lectures on BBC Radio on the theme of globalization. It is apparent that Giddens has established himself as a prominent ‘public intellectual’ and a world Sociologist (see also Bryant & Jary, 2000). In this chapter we set out to consider the existing and potential contribution of Structuration Theory and the writings of Anthony Giddens to understanding the role of sport and leisure in late modern, global society.