Title:	The Sociology of Tourism European Origins and Developments
Authors:	GRAHAM M. S. DANN, GIULI LIEBMAN PARRINELLO Jafar Jafari, Dennison Nash
Keywords:	Sociology of Tourism
Issue Date:	2009
Publisher:	Emerald
Description:	This is a book about tourism social theory. It includes contributions from a number of European regions tracing the origins of the sociology of tourism to Europe in the 1930s and the wide range of its early conceptualization. There is also a specific focus on the Continental roots of its four current mainstream theories and the continuing richness of its evolution in diverse cultures and many languages up to the present day. A comparative study of tourism social theories and their initial appearance in various European countries prior to their subsequent Anglo-Saxon articulation is a new and challenging exercise. For an ambitious undertaking such as this it is necessary to go further than the simple accumulation of different perspectives, even if they display a fascinating patrimony expressed in a way beyond the habitual horizons of conventional wisdom. Instead, the sociology of tourism and its sociological object must somehow capture the multi-polarity of tourism as a ‘‘total social phenomenon’’ (Lanfant 1995; in this volume). To deal with tourism social theories means not only abstractly linking them with general sociology and its main paradigms, but also taking into consideration the socio-political, economic, geographic, cultural, and ideological contexts in which they arose, including the working conditions under which the sociologists of tourism lived, together with their institutions of affiliation. Our project thus requires the study of multiple, different strains and levels of analysis.
URI:	http://10.6.20.12:80/handle/123456789/44583
ISBN:	978-1-84663-988-3
Appears in Collections:	Environmental and Development Studies

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