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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.
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and Goman 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. Sociological checks and balances are important and should not be forgotten, but
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Dec 22, 2019 · Sports shape genders as genre, codes, and narratives bring moralities and folkloric ideas to bare on the public gravity of gendered sport interaction. A cultural sociology of sports tries hard to decouple culture and politics, making repeated claims about the autonomy of culture, and points to hedging and uncertainty about cultural causality in ...
- Trygve B. Broch
- trygve.broch@inn.no
- 2020
Oct 1, 2022 · A cultural sociology of sports, a study of sports for sociology, shows how sports are part of our societies, as a specialized institution and as part of a whole way of life.
May 8, 2015 · On the 50th anniversary of the ISSA and IRSS, Jay Coakley, a foundational scholar in the development of the sociology of sport, reflects on the lasting power of the Great Sport Myth (GSM) to shape cultural understandings of sport. Situated in an unshakable belief about the inherent purity and goodness of sport, it is argued that the GSM has shaped uncountable decisions to embrace and sponsor ...
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We draw and build on Broch’s skillful application of, and advocacy for a cultural sociology of sports—a meaning centered theoretical framework that takes seriously how culture-structures shape the social and material worlds of sports. In analyzing how the meaning of handball shapes gendered life in Norway, Broch shows that sport is not just ritual, but performance; and that actors and ...
