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Race and Sports. Race and sports have been in complex articulation since the nineteenth century, yet a critical sociology of sport and race has only developed substantially since the 1990s. In the 1960s a few academic studies and journalistic accounts examined segregation and racial discrimination in sport, but these were largely descriptive.
- Sports Industry
For the latter group, sport is seen as a useful tool through...
- Gambling on Sports
As pre-Enlightenment thinkers advanced the notion that...
- Sport and The Environment
Everything outside the boundaries of the subsystem sport is...
- Sport and The City
In the late 1950s and early 1960s, an individual’s...
- Sport and The State
The material support given by the state to sport, mostly...
- Figurational Sociology
An example from the sociology of sport is Gary Armstrong,...
- Youth Sports
But sport is also a question of learning norms and values...
- Sport and Culture
The sociological analysis of sport and culture has to deal...
- Sports Industry
Jul 14, 2021 · Research has shown that when visibly diverse teams lose, existing exclusionary and racist nationalist undercurrents rise to the surface, manifesting as denial that players of colour belong to the ...
This review surveys the sociological work on race and sport over the past 50 years. It begins by outlining the importance of C.L.R. James's book Beyond a Boundary as a foundational text for the critical sociology of race and sport. Two paradigms of research on race and sport are sketched: the critical and the functionalist-evolutionary. The article then reviews the major contributions to ...
Oct 8, 2021 · Finally, the issue finishes with a reflexive book review produced by Konoval on the book entitled ‘Race’, Ethnicity and Racism in Sports coaching by Steven Bradbury, Jim Lusted, and Jacco van Sterkenburg. We hope this Special Issue is a provocation to the readers of EJSS, particularly those with an interest in sport, race, and ethnicity.
- Adam Brian Evans, Sine Agergaard, Paul Ian Campbell, Kevin Hylton, Kevin Hylton, Verena Lenneis
- 2021
Oct 17, 2022 · However, calling attention to cultural sociological analysis—from Durkheim, Geertz, and Goffman to today’s cutting-edge work in cultural sociology—can help revitalize a truly meaning-centered study of sports, and, perhaps, bring sports back into our work of sociologically theorizing symbolic forms.
Nov 28, 2022 · The Deep Cultural Structure of Sport A final factor that significantly structures the meaning and effectiveness of race-based athletic activism involves the cultural norms about and surrounding sport—its idealized status in the public imaginary and ideological conceptions about itself. While a full explication of what might be called the “deep cultural structure” of sport is beyond the ...
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Sport and Society. Despite its economic and cultural centrality, sport is a relatively neglected and undertheorized area of sociological research. In this review, we examine sports' articulation with stratification issues, especially race, class, and gender. In addition, we look at how the media and processes of globalization have affected sports.
