Sport : a critical sociology

Durkheimian elements : religion, integration and social order in sport

Weberian trends : meaning and rationalization in sport

Marx and neo-Marxists : sport, work, alienation and ideology

Cultural studies : hegemony theory beyond resistance

'Race', ethnicity and intolerance in sport

Gender identities and sexuality in sport

The body : discipline, conduct and the pleasures of sport

Sporting spaces : valuing topophilia

Elias on sport : the interplay of figurations

Bourdieu on sport : distinction, symbolic violence and struggle

The postmodern : premonitions of virtual, post-industrial sport

Globalization : the politics of 'glocal' sport

Epilogue : the critical sociology of sport : some recommendations