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Eric Dunning

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Eric Dunning's Degrees

PhD Sociology University of Leicester
Masters Sociology University of Leicester

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According to Wikipedia, Eric Dunning was a British sociologist who was Emeritus Professor of sociology at the University of Leicester. Career Eric Dunning was a pioneer in the sociology of sport and the founder, with Patrick Murphy and John Williams, of the Sir Norman Chester Centre for Football Research. He was the author of a number of books and articles on sport and the figurational sociology of Norbert Elias. Although officially retired, Dunning remained an Emeritus Professor of the University of Leicester as well as a Visiting Professor at the Chester Centre for Research into Sport and Society. Dunning was also a member of the editorial board of the Jornal de Ciências do Exercicio e Esporte, Paraná Federal University, Brazil.

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The Civilizing Process: Sociogenetic and Psychogenetic Investigations (2000) (1147)
Quest for Excitement: Sport and Leisure in the Civilizing Process (1986) (526)
Sport Matters: Sociological Studies of Sport, Violence and Civilisation (1999) (358)
Sport as a Male Preserve: Notes on the Social Sources of Masculine Identity and its Transformations (1986) (280)
The Germans: Power Struggles and the Development of Habitus in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. (1996) (271)
Sport Matters: Sociological Studies of Sport, Violence, and Civilization (2002) (260)
Barbarians, Gentlemen and Players : A Sociological Study of the Development of Rugby Football (1980) (248)
The Roots of Football Hooliganism: An Historical and Sociological Study (1988) (203)
The Roots Of Football Hooliganism (1988) (196)
Handbook of Sports Studies (2003) (173)
Towards a Sociological Understanding of Football Hooliganism as a World Phenomenon (2000) (153)
Barbarians, Gentlemen, and Players (1979) (124)
Spectator violence at football matches: towards a sociological explanation. (1986) (117)
The Rugby Football Club as a Type of "Male Preserve": Some Sociological Notes (1973) (103)
Football on Trial: Spectator Violence and Development in the Football World (1990) (100)
Dynamics of Group Sports with Special Reference to Football (1966) (87)
The sociology of sport: A selection of readings, (1974) (86)
Figurational Sociology and the Sociology of Sport: Some Concluding Remarks (1992) (84)
Sport and Leisure in the Civilizing Process (1992) (84)
Towards a Theory of Social Processes: A Translation (1997) (81)
Chapter 6. The Genesis of Sport as a Sociological Problem (1972) (79)
Fighting Fans: Football Hooliganism as a World Phenomenon (2002) (76)
Elias on Germany, Nazism and the Holocaust : on the balance between civilizing and decivilizing trends in the social development of Western Europe (1998) (71)
Barbarians, Gentlemen and Players: A Sociological Study of the Development of Rugby Football. (1981) (69)
Chapter 17. “Football Mad”: A Speculative Sociology of Football Hooliganism (1972) (60)
Hooligans Abroad : The Behaviour and Control of English Fans in Continental Europe (1986) (60)
Norbert Elias and Modern Sociology: Knowledge, Interdependence, Power, Process (2012) (58)
On the process of civilisation : sociogenetic and psychogenetic investigations (2012) (58)
Sport as a Drug and Drugs in Sport (2003) (56)
The Sports Process: A Comparative and Developmental Approach (1993) (55)
Sport and leisure in the civilizing process : critique and counter-critique (1994) (54)
The social roots of football hooligan violence (1982) (45)
Anthropological versus Sociological Approaches to the Study of Soccer Hooliganism: Some Critical Notes (1991) (44)
Sport histories : figurational studies of the development of modern sports (2004) (38)
Process-Sociological Notes on Sport, Gender Relations and Violence Control (1996) (37)
The Social Process of Innovation: A Study in the Sociology of Science (1973) (37)
Soccer Crowd Disorder and the Press: Processes of Amplification and De-amplification in Historical Perspective (1988) (37)
The Bifurcation of Rugby Union and Rugby League: a Case Study of Organizational Conflict and Change (1976) (33)
Social bonding and violence in sport (1981) (33)
Sociological Reflections on Sport, Violence and Civilization (1990) (31)
On problems of the emotions in sport and leisure. (1996) (31)
Barbarians, Gentlemen and Players. A Sociological Study of the Developement of Rugby Football (2006) (29)
Association Football: A Study in Figurational Sociology (2015) (26)
Sociological Versus Empiricist History: Some Comments on Tony Collins's ‘History, Theory and the “Civilizing Process”’ (2006) (24)
The problem with revisionism: how new data on the origins of modern football have led to hasty conclusions (2013) (24)
Football Hooliganism in Britain before the First World War (1984) (23)
War and Modernity (2005) (20)
Sociology of Sport in the Balance: Critical Reflections on Some Recent and More Enduring Trends (2004) (18)
The Roots of Football Hooliganism (RLE Sports Studies) : An Historical and Sociological Study (2014) (17)
Something of a Curate's Egg: Comments on Adrian Harvey's 'An Epoch in the Annals of National Sport' (2001) (17)
The Cross-Cultural Analysis of Sport and Games (1972) (16)
Sport: readings from a sociological perspective (1972) (16)
‘Culture’, ‘civilization’ and the sociology of sport (1992) (16)
Chapter 15. Wrestling—The Great American Passion Play (1972) (16)
Sport in Space and Time: "Civilizing Processes", Trajectories of State-Formation and the Development of Modern Sport (1994) (16)
Social Bonding and Violence in Sport: A Theoretical-Empirical Analysis (1983) (15)
Gentlemen and Players: A Sociological Study of the Development of Rugby Football (1981) (15)
The Rise of the English Soccer Hooligan (1986) (15)
Notes on Some Conceptual and Theoretical Problems in the Sociology of Sport (1967) (13)
Sport in the Quest for Excitement: Norbert Elias's Contributions to the Sociology of Sport (1997) (13)
Public schools, status rivalry and the development of football (2004) (13)
The Figurational Approach to Leisure and Sport (1989) (12)
Research note: surveying the social composition of football crowds (1996) (12)
The Curate's Egg Scrambled Again: Comments on 'The Curate's Egg Put Back Together'! (2002) (11)
Violent disorders in Twentieth Century Britain (1987) (11)
Soccer: the social origins of the sport and its development as a spectacle and profession. (1979) (10)
The Beginnings of Capitalism and the New Mass Morality (2006) (10)
Chapter 5. Dynamics of Sport Groups with Special Reference to Football (1972) (10)
The development of soccer as a world game. (1999) (10)
Conclusion: Figurational sociology and the development of modern sport (2004) (9)
Football hooligan violence before the first world war: preliminary sociological reflections on some research findings. (1983) (9)
The ‘origins of football debate’ and the early development of the game in Nottinghamshire (2017) (9)
Football spectator violence and disorder before the first world war: a reply to R.W. Lewis (1998) (9)
Dynamics of Racial Stratification: Some Preliminary Observations (1972) (9)
The Theory of Social Change: Four Views Considered (1972) (8)
The origins of football debate (2015) (8)
A Remembrance of Norbert Elias (1992) (8)
The Sociology of Progress (1972) (8)
Social bonding and the socio-genesis of violence. A theoretical-empirical analysis with special reference to combat sports. (1981) (8)
The Power Game: Continued Reflections on the Early Development of Modern Football (2016) (8)
Translators' Introduction to Norbert Elias's 'Towards a Theory of Social Processes' (1997) (8)
`Figurational Sociology': Some Critical Comments on Zygmunt Bauman's, `The Phenomenon of Norbert Elias' (1979) (7)
A Response to R.J. Robinson's, `the “Civilizing Process”: Some Remarks on Elias's Social History' (1989) (7)
The development of sport (2003) (7)
Sport in the civilizing process : aspects of the development of modern sporting forms (1988) (7)
Testing’ Elias: Aspects of Violence Viewed in Long-Term Perspective (2011) (6)
Figurational/process-sociological reflections on sport and globalization: some conceptual-theoretical observations with special reference to the ‘soccer’ form of football (2010) (6)
Chapter 7. Folk Football in Medieval and Early Modern Britain (1972) (5)
Figurational/Process-Sociological Notes on Loïc Wacquant’s Body and Soul (2005) (5)
Notes on Some Recent Contributions to the Sociology of Sport (1983) (5)
Approaches to the study of sport (2003) (5)
Chapter 4. American Sports: Play and Display (1972) (5)
'On Modern Relationships: The Commandments of the New Freedom' (2003) (5)
Chapter 10. On Bullfights and Baseball: An Example of Interaction of Social Institutions (1972) (4)
Ordered segmentation and the socio-genesis of football hooligan violence: a critique of Marsh's 'ritualised aggression' hypothesis and the outline of a sociological alternative. (1981) (4)
Civilizing Sports: Figurational Sociology and the Sociology of Sport (2010) (4)
Introduction to Norbert Elias's `On the Sociology of German Anti-Semitism' (2001) (4)
Some comments on Jack Goody's `Elias and the anthropological tradition' 1 (2002) (4)
Violence and Violence-Control in Long-Term Perspective: 'Testing' Elias in Relation to War, Genocide, Crime, Punishment and Sport (2008) (3)
Chapter 12. Social Stratification and Mobility Among Young German Sportsmen (1972) (3)
Sport in the process of racial stratification. (1999) (3)
Sociology in Action: Case Studies in Social Problems and Directed Social Change (1967) (3)
Chapter 1. The Play Element in Contemporary Sport (1972) (2)
Issues in the sociology of sport (2003) (2)
Chapter 8. The Development of Modern Football (1972) (2)
Soccer hooliganism as a world social problem. (1999) (2)
Chapter 3. Sport as Symbolic Dialogue (1972) (2)
Comments on Elias's `Scenes from the Life of a Knight' (1987) (2)
Sport, gender and civilization. (1999) (2)
The dynamics of sports consumption. (1999) (2)
The Course on Race Relations for Sociology Undergraduates at Leicester University (1971) (1)
Football Hooliganism as a European and World Problem (2006) (1)
Chapter 14. The Occupational Culture of the Boxer (1972) (1)
#TrumpStyle: The Political Frames and Twitter Attacks of Donald Trump (2018) (1)
FOOTBALL ON TRIAL: Reflections on the future of soccer as a world game (2002) (1)
Sport and power relations (2003) (1)
Three men and two villages: the influence of footballers from rural South Yorkshire on the early development of the game in Sheffield (2018) (1)
Sport in space and time: trajectories of state formation and the early development of modern sport (1999) (1)
Violence and Sport (2003) (1)
Chapter 9. Football in America: A Study in Culture Diffusion (1972) (0)
Not Work Alone: A Cross-Cultural View of Activities Superfluous to Survival@@@Leisure in the Industrial Revolution (1982) (0)
Sports crowd violence in North America. (1999) (0)
#BBQBecky & #PermitPatty: African-American Humor & Resistive Discourse on Twitter (2020) (0)
Holt Richard, editor. Sport and the Working Class in Modern Britain (International Studies in the History of Sport.) Manchester: Manchester University Press; distributed by St. Martin's Press, New York, N.Y. 1990. Pp. x, 221. $49.95 cloth, $29.95 paper. (1992) (0)
Soccer as a political football: the game in Britain now and in the future (1990) (0)
FOOTBALL SPECTATOR BEHAVIOUR AS A EUROPEAN PROBLEM: Some findings from a collaborative cross-cultural study of the 1988 European championships * (2002) (0)
Abstracts (2004) (0)
"Below The Yellow Line": Competitor Discourse on NBC's "The Biggest Losrer" (2011) (0)
Technological Innovation and Society (1967) (0)
Hooligans Abroad (RLE Sports Studies) : The Behaviour and Control of English Fans in Continental Europe (2014) (0)
Spectator Violence in Stadiums: Why do the Hooligans Fight? An Essay in Honor of Eric Dunning (2022) (0)
Spectator Violence at Football Matches: Towards a Sociological Explanation (2020) (0)
Book Reviews (2002) (0)
Chapter 13. Negroes in Baseball (1972) (0)
Football hooliganism in historical perspective. (1984) (0)
Public school status rivalry and the early development of football: the cases of Eton and Rugby (2015) (0)
Figuring Modern Sport (2010) (0)
The Sheffi eld footballing sub-culture and other early clubs (2015) (0)
Book Reviews (1974) (0)
Feasible Planning for Social Change (1967) (0)
Sport in the western civilising process. (1999) (0)
Book Reviews (2004) (0)
Drugs in Sport: Some Neglected Issues (2003) (0)
Shorter Notices (1982) (0)
General Introduction. Sport as a Field of Sociological Enquiry (1972) (0)
The universities and codifi cation (2015) (0)
Chapter 16. Notes on Inter-Group Conflicts in International Sport (1972) (0)
Chapter 11. On Scholarship and Interscholastic Athletics (1972) (0)
Work and Play: Ideas and Experience of Work and Leisure@@@Sociology of Leisure (1975) (0)
ENGLISH FOOTBALL AND THE HOOLIGAN CRISIS: Prevailing policies and constructive alternatives (2002) (0)
Understanding football hooliganism: a critical review of some theories (2014) (0)
Book Review (2000) (0)
FOOTBALL HOOLIGANISM IN BRITAIN: 1880–1989 (2002) (0)
The Form of Sociology: Paradigms and Crises@@@Sociology as an Art Form@@@Towards a Critical Sociology: An Essay on Commonsense and Emancipation@@@Sociology as Social Criticism (1978) (0)
Fire and Civilization (1996) (0)
Chapter 2. The Classification of Games (1972) (0)

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