Sociology of sport

Sociology of sport, alternately referred to as sports sociology, is a sub-discipline of sociology which focuses on sports as social phenomena. It is an area of study concerned with various socio-cultural structures, patterns, and organizations or groups involved with sport.

There are many perspectives through which sport can be viewed. Therefore, very often some binary divisions are stressed, such as: professional — amateur, mass — top-level, active — passive/spectator, men — women, sports - play (as an antithesis to organized and institutionalized activity). Following feminist or other reflexive and tradition-breaking paradigms sports are sometimes studied as contested activities, i.e. as activities in the centre of various people/groups interests (connection of sports and gender, mass media, or state-politics).

The emergence of the sociology of sport (though not the name itself) dates from the end of the 19th century, when first social psychological experiments dealing with group effects of competition and pace-making took place. Besides cultural anthropology and its interest in games in the human culture, one of the first efforts to think about sports in more general way was Johan Huizinga's "Homo Ludens" or Thorstein Veblen's "Theory of the Leisure Class".^[1]

See also

• History of sport
• Women's sport
• Anti-jock Movement

References

1. ^ Lueschen, G. 1980. Sociology of Sport: Development, Present State, and Prospects. Annual Review of Sociology, 6: 315 — 347.

Further reading

• Bourdieu, Pierre. 1993. How can one be a sports fan? In The Cultural Studies Reader, During, S. (ed.). London: Routledge. 339-355, ISBN 0415077087 . OCLC 28818343. 
• Brohm, Jean-Marie : Sport: A Prison of Measured Time, Pluto Press, 1987
• Cashmore, Ernest (2000). Sports Culture: An A-Z Guide. London, UK; New York, NY: Routledge. ISBN 0415181690. OCLC 41548336. 
• Coakley, Jay J. (2004). Sport in Society: Issues and Controversies (8th edition ed.). Boston, MA: McGraw-Hill. ISBN 0072556579. OCLC 51631598. 

• Coakley, Jay J. 1998. Sport in Society. Issues and Controversies, 6th ed. Boston: McGraw Hill, ISBN 0815120273 . OCLC 36865585. 
• Collins, Michael F. and Tess Kay (2003). Sport and Social Exclusion. London: Routledge. ISBN 0415259592. OCLC 51527713. 
• Danielson, Michael N. (1997). Home Team: Professional Sports and the American Metropolis. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. ISBN 0691036500. OCLC 35397761. 
• Dunning, Eric and Dominic Malcolm (editors) (2003). Sport. London, UK; New York, NY: Routledge. ISBN 0415262925. OCLC 51222256. 
• Dunning, Eric and Kenneth Sheard (2005). Barbarians, Gentlemen and Players: A Sociological Study of the Development of Rugby Football (2nd edition ed.). London, UK; New York, NY: Routledge. ISBN 0714653535. OCLC 55665559. 
• Dyck, Noel (2000). Games, Sports and Cultures. Oxford: Berg. ISBN 1859733123. OCLC 44485325. 
• Dunleavy, Aidan O., Andrew W. Miracle, and C. Roger Rees. Studies in the Sociology of Sport. Fort Worth: Texas Christian University Press, 1982 ISBN 0912646780 . OCLC 8762539. 
• Eitzen, D. Stanley and George Harvey Sage (2003). Sociology of North American Sport (7th edition ed.). Boston, MA: McGraw-Hill. ISBN 0072354003. OCLC 49276709. 
• Giulianotti, Richard (2005). Sport: A Critical Sociology. Oxford, UK; Malden, MA: Polity. ISBN 0745625452. OCLC 56659449. 
• Freccero Renata, & Gleyse Jacques (2001). La Fabrica dei corpi. Torino: Levrotto & Bella. 
• Giulianotti, Richard (2004). Sport and Modern Social Theorists. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 0333800788. OCLC 55095622. 
• Guttmann, Allen (2004). From Ritual to Record: The Nature of Modern Sports (Updated with a new afterword ed.). New York, NY: Columbia University Press. ISBN 0231133413. OCLC 54503875. 
• Gleyse, Jacques (1995, reed. 2006). Archéologie de l'Education physique au XXe siècle en France. Paris: P.U.F.. 
• Gleyse, Jacques (1997.). L'Instrumentalisation du corps. Paris, Montréal: L'harmattan. 
• Guttmann, Allen. 1994. Games and Empires. Modern Sports and Cultural Imperialism. New York: Columbia University Press, ISBN 0231100426 . OCLC 30036883. 
• Heywood, Leslie, and Shari L. Dworkin (2003). Built to Win: The Female Athlete as Cultural Icon. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press. ISBN 0816636230. OCLC 51304091. 
• Horne, John, and Wolfram Manzenreiter (2006). Sports Mega-Events: Social Scientific Analyses of a Global Phenomenon. Malden, MA: Blackwell Pub./Sociological Review. ISBN 1405152907. OCLC 70131129. 
• Houlihan, Barrie (editor) (2003). Sport and Society: A Student Introduction. London, UK; Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications. ISBN 0761970339. OCLC 52460691. 
• Jarvie, Grant and Maguire, Joseph. 1994. Sport and Leisure in Social Thought. London: Routledge, ISBN 0415077036 . OCLC 30030487. 
• Jarvie, Grant. 2006 Sport, Culture and Society. An Introduction, London: Routledge, ISBN 0415306477 . OCLC 60650865. 
• Jay, Kathryn (2004). More than just a Game: Sports in American Life since 1945. New York, NY: Columbia University Press. ISBN 0231125348. OCLC 54503879. 
• Johnson, Jay and Margery Jean Holman (2004). Making the Team: Inside the World of Sport Initiations and Hazing. Toronto, Canada: Canadian Scholars' Press. ISBN 1551302470. OCLC 55973445. 
• Jones, Robyn L. and Kathleen M. Armour (2000). Sociology of Sport: Theory and Practice. Harlow, Essex, England: Longman. ISBN 0582419123. OCLC 46486583. 
• Laker, Anthony (2002). The Sociology of Sport and Physical Education: An Introductory Reader. London, UK; New York, NY: RoutledgeFalmer. ISBN 0415235936. OCLC 46732587. 

• Lenskyj, Helen Jefferson, Out on the Field: Gender, Sport and Sexualities. Toronto: Women's Press, 2003

• Loland, Sigmund, Berit Skirstad, and Ivan Waddington (2006). Pain and Injury in Sport: Social and Ethical Analysis. London, UK; New York, NY: Routledge. ISBN 0415357039. OCLC 60453764. 
• Maguire, Joseph A. (2002). Sport Worlds: A Sociological Perspective. Champaign, IL: Human Kinetics. ISBN 0880119721. OCLC 48162875. 
• Maguire, Joseph A. and Kevin Young (editors) (2002). Theory, Sport & Society. Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Boston, MA: JAI. ISBN 0762307420. OCLC 48837757. 
• Markovits, Andrei S. and Steven L. Hellerman (2001). Offside: Soccer and American Exceptionalism. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. ISBN 0691074461. OCLC 44728123. 
• Nixon, Howard L. (2008). Sport in a Changing World. Boulder, CO: Paradigm Publishers. ISBN 9781594514425. OCLC 181368766. 
• Scambler, Graham (2005). Sport and Society: History, Power and Culture. Maidenhead, England; New York, NY: Open University Press. ISBN 0335210716. OCLC 58554471. 
• Scraton, Sheila and Anne Flintoff (2002). Gender and Sport: A Reader. London, UK; New York, NY: Routledge. ISBN 0415259525. OCLC 47255389. 
• Sugden, John Peter and Alan Tomlinson (2002). Power Games: A Critical Sociology of Sport. London, England; New York, NY: Routledge. ISBN 0415251001. OCLC 50291216. 
• Tomlinson, Alan (2005). Sport and Leisure Cultures. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press. ISBN 0816633827. OCLC 57000964. 
• Tomlinson, Alan and Christopher Young (2006). National Identity and Global Sports Events: Culture, Politics, and Spectacle in the Olympics and the Football World Cup. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press. ISBN 0791466159. OCLC 57349033. 
• Wacquant, Loïc J D (2004). Body & Soul: Notebooks of an Apprentice Boxer. Oxford, UK; New York, NY: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0195168356. OCLC 51607336. 
• Waddington, Ivan (2000). Sport, Health and Drugs: A Critical Sociological Perspective. London, UK; New York, NY: E & FN Spon. ISBN 0419251901. OCLC 42692125. 
• Wann, Daniel L., et al. Sport Fans: The Psychology and Social Impact of Spectators. New York: Routledge, 2001 ISBN 0415924634 . OCLC 43951793. 
• Woods, Ron B. (2007). Social Issues in Sport. Champaign, IL: Human Kinetics. ISBN 0736058729. OCLC 70673116. 
• Woodward, Kath (2007). Boxing, Masculinity and Identity: The 'I' of the Tiger. London. UK; New York, NY: Routledge. ISBN 0415367700. OCLC 70158331. 
• Yiannakis, Andrew and Merrill J. Melnick (2001). Contemporary Issues in Sociology of Sport (Revised edition ed.). Champaign, IL: Human Kinetics. ISBN 0736037101. OCLC 45207842. 
• Young, Kevin (editor) (2004). Sporting Bodies, Damaged Selves: Sociological Studies of Sports-Related Injury. Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Boston, MA: Elsevier. ISBN 0762308842. OCLC 57066508. 
• Young, Kevin and Kevin B. Wamsley (2005). Global Olympics: Historical and Sociological Studies of the Modern Games. Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Oxford, UK: Elsevier JAI. ISBN 9780762311811. OCLC 62133166. 
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External links

• Squashblog - media coverage of a minority sport
• International Sociology of Sport Association [1]
• North American Society for the Sociology of Sport [2]
• Sociology of Sport Journal [3]
• University of Leicester, MA Sociology of Sport [4]
• Loughborough University, MSc Sociology of Sport [5]

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