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2010
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Eric Dunning et al., « Figuring Modern Sport : Reflections on Sport, Violence, and Civilization », Vingtième Siècle. Revue d’histoire, ID : 10670/1.e86d41...
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This paper falls into two distinct but clearly inter-related parts. In the first, a summary is provided of the basic figurational findings which show how the soccer developed first of all in England in the 19 th century. The context was the elite public schools and the equally elite universities of Oxford and Cambridge. Basically the author shows is how status rivalry led to the emergence of the soccer and rugby games, both of which became more ‘civilized’ than their medieval antecedents. In the second part, a summary is provided of the core features of Norbert Elias’s sometimes misunderstood theory of civilising processes. The paper ends with a figurational examination and diagnosis of hooliganism, a phenomenon which is still sometimes falsely represented as ‘the English disease’ but has now become a problem which is world-wide in scope.
