Tag: sociology of sport

It’s a pleasure to invite you to the 2nd East Asian Sport Sociology Forum (EASSF). The theme for this forum has been decided as follows: “The Role of Sport in Tackling Social Issues: Lessons from East Asia.” Under this theme, we would like to explore the following topics: class, community / regional revitalization, environmental sustainability, e-sport, gender, globalization, nationalism, Olympics and mega sport events, race, (social) media, sports for the disabled (para sports), sport organizations and governance, sport tourism, theories of sport sociology in east Asia, and so forth.

As syllabi are prepared for the 2026-27 academic year, Jay Coakley presents an opportunity to include videos describing the history of political activism among Black athletes in the US. The 12-part series, The Last Lectures, consists of informative presentations by Dr. Harry Edwards, sociologist, noted civil rights activist, and Professor Emeritus of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley.

Soccer is more than a game—it is a global force that shapes economies, influences politics, drives technological innovation, and unites (and divides) communities across continents. From neighborhood pitches to the world’s largest sporting stages, soccer offers a powerful lens through which to understand some of the most pressing issues of our time. The Journal of Multidisciplinary Research is excited to announce a special issue dedicated to cutting-edge, interdisciplinary scholarship on soccer.

The role of sport in society has always been tied to boundaries and identities – actively creating, reinforcing, or dismantling them. Observing societies through sports gives a unique perspective for analysis and deeper understanding. This is why we are organising a section at the Annual Conference of the Hungarian Sociological Association to invite scholars and early career researchers to discuss sports’ role in society.

The 2026 NASSS conference in Calgary centers and explores the importance of time to how we imagine, experience, and make sense of sport and physical cultures. We often measure the body’s performance in increments of time, for instance in the seconds of the 100-meter dash or the basket scored just before the shot clock expires. Sport has a duration: the 90 minutes of a soccer match, for example, or the 80 minutes of rugby union. And sport often has a temporal rhythm, unfolding through seasons and off seasons that structure our investments of time, emotion, and (often) money. Here, time is a resource, and the ability to have and use time for sport or physical activity reflects broader structural inequalities of gender, race, ethnicity, sexuality, age, ability, and social class.

EJSS’ function is to enable an international discussion about current issues and to foster collaboration between researchers from all social scientific sub-disciplines. It’s published 4 times per year. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Sport career transitions of professional Polish Mixed Martial Arts athletes by Michał Lenartowicz, Adrian Dobrzycki & Wojciech J. Cynarski.

SSSF, a multidisciplinary social sciences sport studies journal, welcomes articles that deal with sport and social change and social stability in a wide sense, articles about the profound and comprehensive processes affecting sport. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Open water swimmer Sally Bauer – a star but not a heroine by Claes Annerstedt & Marie Annerstedt (open access).

SSJ publishes original research, framed by social theory, on exercise, sport, physical culture, and the (physically active) body. The journal publishes peer-reviewed empirical, theoretical, and position papers; book reviews; and critical essays. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Necropolitics Narratives and Disposition of Lives in Sport Spectacle: Negotiating the Death of Mexican Boxer Jeanette Zacarías Zapata in Quebec’s Sport/Media Landscape by Bachir Sirois-Moumni & Myriam Lavoie-Moore.

IRSS is a peer reviewed academic journal. Its main purpose is to disseminate research and scholarship on sport throughout the international academic community. The journal publishes research articles of varying lengths, as well as book and media reviews. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Rethinking places for sport in the Anthropocene by Peter Carlman and Gabriella Torell-Palmquist (open access).

IRSS is a peer reviewed academic journal. Its main purpose is to disseminate research and scholarship on sport throughout the international academic community. The journal publishes research articles of varying lengths, as well as book and media reviews. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: European football fans’ resistance and protest in the face of legal restrictions: Towards a typology and continued research agenda by Radosław Kossakowski and Jan Andre Lee Ludvigsen.