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Barbarians, gentlemen and players : a sociological study of the development of rugby football / Eric Dunning, Kenneth Sheard.

By: Dunning, Eric.
Contributor(s): Sheard, Kenneth.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Oxford : Martin Robertson, 1979Description: xiii, 321 p. : ill ; 23 cm.ISBN: 0855201681.Subject(s): Rugby football -- History | Rugby football -- Social aspectsDDC classification: 301.57
Contents:
Introduction: The development of rugby football as a sociological problem -- Part I: Folk-antecedents and transitional forms of football in the public schools -- The folk-antecedents of modern rugby and their decline -- Football in the early-nineteenth-century public schools -- Part II: The modernization of rugby football -- The preconditions for modernization: Embourgeoisement and public school reform -- The incipient modernization of rugby football -- The 'civilizing process' and the formation of the RFU -- The democratization of rugby football -- Professionalization and the amateur response -- The split -- The class structure and the professionalization of British sport -- Part III: The development of rugby football as a modern sport -- The professionalization of rugby league -- Rugby union as a modern sport: bureaucracy, gate-taking clubs and the Swansong of Amateurism -- Conclusion: Sociological reflections on the crisis in modern sport.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-315) and index.

Introduction: The development of rugby football as a sociological problem -- Part I: Folk-antecedents and transitional forms of football in the public schools -- The folk-antecedents of modern rugby and their decline -- Football in the early-nineteenth-century public schools -- Part II: The modernization of rugby football -- The preconditions for modernization: Embourgeoisement and public school reform -- The incipient modernization of rugby football -- The 'civilizing process' and the formation of the RFU -- The democratization of rugby football -- Professionalization and the amateur response -- The split -- The class structure and the professionalization of British sport -- Part III: The development of rugby football as a modern sport -- The professionalization of rugby league -- Rugby union as a modern sport: bureaucracy, gate-taking clubs and the Swansong of Amateurism -- Conclusion: Sociological reflections on the crisis in modern sport.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • Preface to new edition: Professor
  • Series Editor's Introduction to new edition
  • Introduction to first edition: The development of Rugby Football as a sociological problem
  • 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
  • Epilogue: The Continuing Commercialization and Professionalization of Rugby Football
  • Appendix: The rugby union game