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Sport and Race as Social Phenomena ‘‘Sport’’ and ‘‘race’’ are sociologically problematic because, at first sight, both appear to be aspects of human life that are immediately knowable and products of a natural physicality that precedes socialization.
- 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
A dominant theme in the social science literature on sport...
- Sport and The State
Some have employed a Marxist or neo Marxist definition of...
- Figurational Sociology
The Figurational Sociology of Sport and Its Critics. There...
- Youth Sports
With the start of the Sport for All movement in the 1960s...
- Sport and Culture
The major dimensions of the sports–culture relationship...
- 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 ...
Oct 28, 2020 · Verena Lenneis. Debates around race, ethnicity, and indigeneity, whether related to sport or society in general, are far from new. Yet in recent times, such debates have gained new urgency due to the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement and the racial health inequalities revealed by the Covid-19 pandemic. Although such events are grounded in a ...
- Adam B. Evans, Sine Agergaard, Paul Ian Campbell, Kevin Hylton, Verena Lenneis
- 2020
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
Nov 28, 2022 · Perhaps the trickiest but most basic dimension of the cultural structure of sport in the contested terrain of race involve sport’s complicated relationship to politics—or, more precisely, the combination of deeply rooted ideals about sport, cultural beliefs about politics, and long-standing taboos about the need to keep these two unique socio-institutional fields separate and distinct ...
Oct 17, 2022 · The subdiscipline of sport sociology—balancing its integrity amid applied, ameliorative research, and its predominant use of the critical cultural studies tradition (Coakley and Dunning 2002)—has bred a field content with viewing social inequalities through the lens of sport, to evaluate sport actors and organizations.
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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 ...
