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For a ‘sociology as a team sport’

The British Journal of Sociology, 2019
The intellectual community of sociologists exists through engagement and debate. I am grateful to seven generous colleagues from a range of backgrounds and standpoints for taking on the challenge of responding to my 2018 British Journal of Sociology Annual Lecture – Andrew Cherlin, Claude Fischer, Margaret Frye, Eva Illouz, Giselinde Kuipers, Mike ...
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For a Sociology of Sport

Sociology of Sport Journal, 2012
This essay focuses on some of the main challenges that currently face the sociology of sport, the challenge from the natural sciences, the challenge from mainstream sociology and the challenge which we have set ourselves and which, requires new intellectual innovations of the type discussed in the final sections of this essay.
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Assessing the sociology of sport: On revisiting the sociological imagination

International Review for the Sociology of Sport, 2015
On the 50th anniversary of the ISSA and IRSS, Jim McKay, a wide ranging and influential international scholar on sport, gender, power and globalization, reflects on the benefits for the field of revisiting C Wright Mill and his work on the ‘sociological imagination.’ McKay notes this is important at a time when the ‘parent’ discipline of sociology ...
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Assessing the sociology of sport: On sociological understandings and local sport policy

International Review for the Sociology of Sport, 2015
On the 50th anniversary of the ISSA and IRSS, a foundational scholar in the development of the sociology of sport in the Czech Republic and Eastern Europe, Irena Slepičková, reflects on the relationship between sociological understandings and local sport policy.
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Sociology of Sport in Austria

International Review for the Sociology of Sport, 1992
Illustrating the development, relationships, situation and problems of the sociology of sport in Austria, a chronology is provided of the varied history of the subject from the first steps of Karl Gaulhofer during the 1920s and 1930s to the anthropological foundation and empirical work of the emerging field of sociology of sport 50 years later.
Gilbert Norden, Otmar Weiss
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Assessing the sociology of sport: On the hopes and fears for the sociology of sport in the US

International Review for the Sociology of Sport, 2015
On the 50th anniversary of the ISSA and IRSS, David Andrews, a foundational scholar in the cultural and critical study of sport, considers his hopes and fears for the development of the sociology of sport in the US. Reflecting on the field’s trajectory, Andrews notes growth, diverse scholarly outlets, seemingly unresolvable “tussles” between structural
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Assessing the sociology of sport: On sport and the city

International Review for the Sociology of Sport, 2015
On the 50th anniversary of the ISSA and IRSS, Kimberly Schimmel, one of the leading scholars on sport, urban policy and the political economy of development reviews the trajectory of research into the relationship between cities and sport. Three principal themes are identified: city-building – politics and profits; city-life – culture and community ...
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Sociology of Sport: an Overview

The Sociological Quarterly, 1974
This review sketches some strengths and weaknesses in the subfield and its potential for generating and testing theoretical frameworks. The analysis includes research on sport from the following perspectives: interinstitutional relationships, social stratification, small groups, and social psychology.
Eldon E. Snyder, Elmer Spretzer
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Assessing the sociology of sport: On sport and exercise

International Review for the Sociology of Sport, 2015
On the 50th anniversary of the ISSA and IRSS, Pirkko Markula, a leading poststructuralist scholar, assesses the trajectory, challenges, and future for sociology of sport research on exercise, fitness and physical cultures. The trajectory of more openly politicized examinations of power in sport as cultural studies entered Anglo-American sociology of ...
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The cultural sociology of sport: a study of sports for sociology?

American Journal of Cultural Sociology, 2022
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