... government, a taxation monopoly, increased militarisation and monetarisation of the economy. Specific codes and forms of sport developed which reflected manners, behaviours etc. of the upper-classes and thus expressions of violence tended to be sportised and replaced with simulated violence. Reality combat, for example, was replaced with sporting combat in pastimes such as duelling, which was sportised as, the ... that: " figurational sociology specifically, focuses on male experiences, marginalizes females and says very little about gender relations-. A key movement in the making of mod...

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... mechanism for either ending it or keeping it under control". (1996, 562) It is known that systems producing extremes of wealth and poverty also happen to produce insurgencies or other expressions of political violence. Nevertheless, there is not much deviation from what seems a Western capitalist ideal in the expansion of markets and trade even when these create suffering among people in ... countries and in an increasing number of under-developed countries, too. Logically, American outlooks and the use of persuasion will encourage many consumers to view the current economic system as r...

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