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D-Index
42
Citations
11650
World Ranking
4611
National Ranking
778

Overview

Eric Dunning was affiliated with the University of Leicester in the United Kingdom. Their research spanned multiple areas within the arts, humanities, and social sciences, with particular attention to literature, social psychology, gender studies, and sociology and political science.

Their scholarly work included contributions to various academic topics, notably:

  • Humor Studies and Applications
  • Discourse Analysis in Language Studies
  • American Literature and Humor Studies
  • Sports, Gender, and Society
  • Sport and Mega-Event Impacts

Eric Dunning produced research published in key venues such as:

  • Studies in Linguistics and Literature
  • Studi culturali

Among their recent published papers were:

  • "#BBQBecky & #PermitPatty: African-American Humor & Resistive Discourse on Twitter," published in 2020 in Studies in Linguistics and Literature
  • "Spectator Violence at Football Matches: Towards a Sociological Explanation," published in 2020 in Studi culturali

Collaboration was part of their work, including frequent co-authorship with Patrick Murphy.

Eric Dunning's academic contributions anchored within the subfields of literature and literary theory, social psychology, gender studies, and sociology and political science. Their research addressed intersections across cultural discourse, humor studies, and social dynamics related to sports and society.

Best Publications

  • The Civilizing Process: Sociogenetic and Psychogenetic Investigations

    Norbert Elias;Edmund Francis Neville Jephcott;Eric Dunning;Johan Goudsblom

  • Quest for Excitement: Sport and Leisure in the Civilizing Process

    Norbert Elias;Eric Dunning

  • Sport Matters: Sociological Studies of Sport, Violence and Civilisation

    Eric Dunning

  • On the process of civilisation : sociogenetic and psychogenetic investigations

    Norbert Elias;Stephen Mennell;Eric Dunning;Johan Goudsblom

  • Sport as a Male Preserve: Notes on the Social Sources of Masculine Identity and its Transformations

    Eric Dunning

  • Barbarians, Gentlemen and Players: A Sociological Study of the Development of Rugby Football.

    Dan C. Hilliard;Eric Dunning;Kenneth Sheard

  • The Germans: Power Struggles and the Development of Habitus in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

    Norbert Elias;Michael Schröter;Eric Dunning

  • The Roots of Football Hooliganism: An Historical and Sociological Study

    Eric Dunning;Patrick Murphy;John H. Williams

  • Handbook of Sports Studies

    Jay J. Coakley;Eric Dunning

  • The roots of football hooliganism

    Chris Middleton;Eric Dunning;Patrick Murphy;John Williams

  • Towards a Sociological Understanding of Football Hooliganism as a World Phenomenon

    Eric Dunning

  • Spectator violence at football matches: towards a sociological explanation.

    Eric Dunning;Patrick Murphy;John Williams

  • Sport and Leisure in the Civilizing Process

    Eric Dunning;Chris Rojek

  • Barbarians, gentlemen, and players

    Eric Dunning;Kenneth Sheard;E. Kunze

  • The Rugby Football Club as a Type of "Male Preserve": Some Sociological Notes

    E.G. Dunning;K.G. Sheard

  • Dynamics of Group Sports with Special Reference to Football

    Norbert Elias;Eric Dunning

  • Sport et civilisation : la violence maîtrisée

    Norbert Elias;Eric Dunning;Josette Chicheportiche;Fabienne Duvigneau

  • Elias on Germany, Nazism and the Holocaust : on the balance between civilizing and decivilizing trends in the social development of Western Europe

    Eric Dunning;Stephen Mennell

  • The sociology of sport: A selection of readings,

    Eric Dunning;Norbert Elias

  • Norbert Elias and Modern Sociology

    Jason Hughes;Eric Dunning

  • Barbarians, Gentlemen and Players : A Sociological Study of the Development of Rugby Football

    Eric Dunning

  • Quest for Excitement: Sport and Leisure in the Civilizing Process

    Robert A. Stebbins;Norbert Elias;Eric Dunning

  • Sport Matters: Sociological Studies of Sport, Violence, and Civilization

    David Karen;Eric Dunning

Frequent Co-Authors

Norbert Elias
Norbert Elias Bielefeld University
Joseph Maguire
Joseph Maguire Loughborough University
Robert A. Stebbins
Robert A. Stebbins University of Calgary
Roger Chartier
Roger Chartier Collège de France
Tim Newburn
Tim Newburn London School of Economics and Political Science
Zygmunt Bauman
Zygmunt Bauman University of Leeds

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