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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 the relationship between sociology and sports , and also various socio-cultural structures, patterns, and organizations or groups involved with sport.
The Sociology of Sport Journal is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal covering the sociology of sport.It was established in 1984 and is published by Human Kinetics Publishers on behalf of the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport, of which it is the official journal.
International Review for the Sociology of Sport is abstracted and indexed in, among other databases: SCOPUS, and the Social Sciences Citation Index.According to the Journal Citation Reports, its 2015 impact factor was 1.341, ranking it 41 out of 142 journals in the category 'Sociology' [1] and 18 out of 44 journals in the category 'Hospitality, Leisure, Sport & Tourism'.
The Journal of Sport & Social Issues is a peer-reviewed academic journal that publishes papers in the field of sociology. The journal's editor is C. L. Cole ( University of Illinois ). It has been in publication since 1977 and is currently published by SAGE Publications .
The sociology of leisure or leisure sociology is the study of how humans organize their free time. Leisure includes a broad array of activities, such as sport, tourism, and the playing of games. The sociology of leisure is closely tied to the sociology of work, as each explores a
Eric Dunning was a pioneer in the sociology of sport and the founder, with Patrick Murphy and John Williams, of the Sir Norman Chester Centre for Football Research.He was the author of a number of books and articles on sport and the figurational sociology of Norbert Elias.
Vidar Halldorsson (born 1970) is an Icelandic sociologist and professor at the University of Iceland (Háskóli Íslands) [1] credited with authoring Sport in Iceland: How Small Nations Achieve International Success, [2] which was the first book to use sociological approaches to prove that local, cultural, and international factors of sports development more generally affected the success of ...
Michael Alan Messner (born 1952) is an American sociologist.His main areas of research are gender (especially men's studies) and the sociology of sports.He is the author of several books, he gives public speeches and teaches on issues of gender-based violence, the lives of men and boys, and gender and sports.