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Social bonding and violence in sport

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 September 2011

Eric Dunning
Eric Dunning
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Department of Sociology, University of Leicester
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Summary

Having set out a provisional ‘typology of violence’, the question of violence in sport is considered in its historical perspective, with numerous examples. The question of violence in relation to social bonding is then considered and distinctions are drawn between the types of violence inherent in two differently structured societies, the segmentally and functionally bonded. Contemporary football hooliganism is then considered as developing from segmentally bonded elements in present-day society.

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I. Sport and society
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Journal of Biosocial Science , Volume 13 , supplement S7: Biosocial Aspects of Sport , 1981 , pp. 5 - 22
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1981

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