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1、Onproblemsoftheemotionsinsportandleisure:criticalandcounter-criticalcommentsontheconventionalandgurationalsociologiesofsportandleisureERICDUNNINGDepartmentofSociologyandCentreforResearchintoSportandSociety,UniversityofLeicester,Leicester,UKThesubjecto
2、fthispaperistheemotionswhicharearousedinsportandleisureandtheirsignicanceforafullsociologicalunderstandingofsportandleisurebehaviourandsportandleisureinstitutions.Thepaperdealsmorewithsportthanleisureingeneralandisprimarilyconceptualandtheoreticalinit
3、sfocus.Itadvancestheclaimthata‘gurational’(or‘process-sociological’)approach,aboveallElias’stheoryof‘civilizingprocesses’(Elias,1939;l994a),whilstbynomeansrepresentingapanaceaforallofsociology’scurrentproblems,doesrepresentameansofcircumventingandhope
4、fullyovercomingsomeofthedilemmasonthehornsofwhichpractitionersofoursubjectrecurrentlybecomeimpaled.Ishallstartthispaperwithacoupleofexamples.Therstrelatestotourism,morespecicallytoJohnUrry’sTheTouristGaze:LeisureandTravelinContemporarySocieties(1990a)
5、.Inmyopinion,thisisanimportantbookwhichaddssignicantlytoknowledge,although,itis,Ithink,alsoconceptuallyawedinsomerespects,particularlyinthatitrepeatswhatarearguablysomeofthelimitingconceptsandassumptionswhichremainwidespreadin‘conventional’sociologyan
6、dthe‘conventional’sociologyofleisure.Accordingly,itcanservetoillustratewhatIbelievetheselimitingconceptsandassumptionstobe.Inprovidingalistofwhatheregardsasimportantforasociologicalunderstandingoftouristbehaviour,Urrywrites:‘Thefollowingarerelevanttou
7、nderstandingthechangingsociologyofthetouristgaze:thesocialtoneofdifferentplaces;theglobalisationandtheuniversalisationofthetouristgaze;theprocessesofconsumingtouristservices;touristmeaningsandsigns;modernismandpost-modernism;history,heritageandthevern
8、acular;andpost-tourismandplay.Different*AnearlierversionofthispaperwasdeliveredattheMesaRonda(RoundTable)onAsProblematicasDoLazerNaSociedadeActualattheInternationalUniversity,Lisbon,on27June,1995.LeisureStudies15(1996)185–2070261–4367©1996E.&F
