Hegemony Theory, Social Domination, and Sport: The MacAloon and Hargreaves–Tomlinson Debate Revisited

• Autores: William J. Morgan
• Localización: Sociology of sport journal, ISSN 0741-1235, Vol. 11, Nº. 3, 1994, págs. 309-329
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • I reexamine some of the contentious issues that frame the debate between MacAloon, who champions an American anthropological approach to the study of sport, and Hargreaves and Tomlinson, who favor a British cultural studies approach to the study of sport. Specifically, I take up Hargreaves and Tomlinson’s central charge that MacAloon’s critical account of British cultural studies, especially its hegemonist wing, is to be dismissed as a one-sided, “staggering misrepresentation.” I argue that while MacAloon misinterprets certain features of this hegemonist writing on sport, his main criticisms of British hegemony sport theory are telling ones that repay closer study.