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Fighting As Real As It Gets

A Micro-Sociological Encounter

Michael Staack (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

IX, 208 Seiten

2019
J.B. Metzler, Part of Springer Nature - Springer-Verlag GmbH
978-3-476-04990-2 (ISBN)

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Michael Staack's multi-year ethnography is the first and only comprehensive social-scientific analysis of the combat sport 'Mixed Martial Arts'. Based on systematic training observations, the author meticulously analyses how Mixed Martial Arts practitioners conjointly create and immerse themselves into their own world of ultimate bodily combat. With his examination of concentrative technique demonstrations, cooperative technique train-ings, and chaotic sparring practices, Staack not only provides a sociological illumination of Mixed Martial Arts culture's defining theme - the quest of 'Fighting As Real As It Gets'. Rather further-more, he provides a compelling cultural-sociological case study on practical social constructions of 'authenticity'.

Michael Staack is a Research Associate at the Institute for Sports Sciences, Department ‚Social Science of Sports‘ at the Goethe-University Frankfurt a.M.

Introduction: MMA as 'Fighting As Real As It Gets'.- Literature on MMA.- Methodical approach, execution of study, structure of the book.- Producing combative causality in technique demonstrations: The setting.- Producing combative causality in technique demonstrations: (Inter-)Actions.- Dyadic emulations of the demonstrated techniques.- Sparring: Setting it up and getting into it.- Sparring: Combative passion and combative actions.- Conclusion.- Prospect: Future lines of research.

Erscheinungsdatum	01.09.2020
Reihe/Serie	Beiträge zur Praxeologie / Contributions to Praxeology
Zusatzinfo	IX, 208 p.
Verlagsort	Stuttgart
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	488 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
Schlagworte	Ethnomethodology • Martial Arts • Practice Theory • Praxeology • Sociology of the body
ISBN-10	3-476-04990-6 / 3476049906
ISBN-13	978-3-476-04990-2 / 9783476049902
Zustand	Neuware