Tag: sociology of sport

Journal of Sport and Social Issues (JSSI) brings you the latest research, discussion and analysis on contemporary sport issues. Using an international, interdisciplinary perspective, JSSI examines today's most pressing and far-reaching questions about sport.

In this special issue, we propose to open previously unexplored avenues for fantasy sports research that will broaden the geographical, historical, cultural and intercultural, theoretical, philosophical, and/or disciplinary scope of the field and spark future study

In his revisions of Sports in Society for each new edition, Jay Coakley has compiled an impressive sport studies/sport sociology bibliography that contains about 5100 references, in which it is possible to do basic word searches of titles, or authors’ last names. It’s here!

The International Review for the Sociology of Sport is a peer reviewed academic journal that is published six times each year. Its main purpose is to disseminate research and scholarship on sport throughout the international academic community. The journal publishes research articles of varying lengths, from standard length research papers to shorter reports and commentary, as well as book and media reviews.

The Sports and Violence Conference will be held on March 19, 2016 on the campus of Ashland University in Ashland, Ohio. We are seeking paper and panel proposals that engage the conference theme.

Sport has always played an integral role within Caribbean societies. Sports personalities have for a long time been the Caribbean's heroes and so too sport has always been an iconic Caribbean pastime. This popularity has driven many state initiatives to use sport as a tool for economic and social development.

The considerable growth of interest in commerce, media and politics and their relationship to sport in international academia has resulted in academics in various disciplines writing about sport. Sport in Society is a multi-disciplinary and inter-disciplinary forum for academics to discuss the growing relationship of sport to significant areas of modern life. Special Issue: Girls, International Development and the Politics of Sport.

The considerable growth of interest in commerce, media and politics and their relationship to sport in international academia has resulted in academics in various disciplines writing about sport. Sport in Society is a multi-disciplinary and inter-disciplinary forum for academics to discuss the growing relationship of sport to significant areas of modern life. Special Issue: The British World and the Five Rings: Essays in British Imperialism and the Modern Olympic Movement.

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Video games are today depicted as an evident leisure activity. Yet, the legitimization of this hobby has undertaken a chaotic track. Playing video games has, in fact, transformed from a marginal and isolated activity to a global and mainstream pastime.