SOCI30473

Monday Night Football, Game 7, Buzzer Beater, Stoppage Time, and Underdog stories are all part of society's sports vernacular. But what do they mean for the individuals who prepare, participate, and spectate sport? These are just several of the key questions this course aims to explore. Sociology is the study of the social world and how society is constructed, reconstructed, and maintained through patterns of social relationships and social interactions in everyday life. This course is built on the idea that sport is a reflection of society and provides an excellent window and platform to investigate how such processes happen. This course takes a cross-cultural, historical, and transnational perspective to the study of the intertwining of sport, culture, and politics to provide a well-rounded understanding and introduction to the sociology of sport. Several themes this course explores are the different social and cultural meanings attached to sport, varying patterns in sport participation, the global sports economy, and labor in the sport industry.