Introduction: A Critical Realist Theory of Sport
1. The Case for a Revised Sociology of Sport
2. A Critical Realist Frame
3. From Hyper-rationalisation to the Fractured Society
4. Global System versus Local Lifeworld
5. A Case Study: Rugby as ‘Tribal Warfare’
6. Sociology and Sport in the Fractured Society
Biography
Graham Scambler is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at University College London and Visiting Professor of Sociology at Surrey University. Recent books include Sociology, Health and the Fractured Society: A Critical Realist Account (2018); A Sociology of Shame and Blame: Insiders Versus Outsiders (2020); and Communal Forms: A Sociological Exploration of Concepts of Community (with Tjora, 2020). He is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, UK.
