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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 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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The cultural sociology of sport: a study of sports for sociology?

American Journal of Cultural Sociology, 2022
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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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Sport sociology

2023
Richard L Light, Steve Georgakis
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Assessing the sociology of sport: On public sociology of sport and research that makes a difference

International Review for the Sociology of Sport, 2015
On the 50th anniversary of the ISSA and IRSS, one of the most influential scholars linking the sociology of sport to policy and social change, Peter Donnelly, considers the prospects for a nexus meshing public intellectualism with the doing of research. Noted in considering the trajectory of the field was an early absence of the sociologist as partisan
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Sociology of Sport and Humor

International Review for the Sociology of Sport, 1991
Humor is a pervasive aspect of sport. While there are sociological writings that focus on the sociology of humor, little consideration has been given to the sociology of humor and sport. Yet, the problematic nature of sport outcomes provide a fertile area for the emergence of humor.
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