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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
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 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 ...
Oct 4, 2018 · October 4, 2018. 2 minutes. The icon indicates free access to the linked research on JSTOR. Sports have been in the news lately, from Serena Williams’s controversy at the U.S. Open to Caster Semenya’s fight to be allowed to race as a woman. Perhaps most dramatically, Nike and Colin Kaepernick have set some parts of the country aflame (sort ...
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 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 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.
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ntsTeaching AssistantMichelle Nadon Belanger michelle.nadonbelanger@mail.utoronto.caCourse GoalThe sociology of sport seeks to critically exa. ine common sense views about the role, function and meaning that sport has in different societies. By challenging ‘nature’ and taken-for-granted views abo. t sport, sociologists seek to provide a ...
