Ascetic Athleticism and the Spirit of Fair Play: A Weberian Interpretation of Football’s Beginning Rationalization in Victorian Britain
Published online on February 06, 2026
Abstract
Cultural Sociology, Ahead of Print.
With the help of archival sources, the earliest football codes, and academic scholarship on football and 19th-century British history, this article explores the transformation of football in mid-19th-century Britain as a cultural site where moral ...
With the help of archival sources, the earliest football codes, and academic scholarship on football and 19th-century British history, this article explores the transformation of football in mid-19th-century Britain as a cultural site where moral ...