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Pathfinder: Sociology of Sport
Scope|Subject
Headings|Overview
Sources|Circulating
Books|Periodicals, Journals & Trade
Publications
SCOPE: Millions of people either view sports or participate in sports. Either way, sports have become a cultural phenomenon. Sports permeate culture to such an extent that everyday language incorporates game images and metaphors that shape and often distort the way people think about social reality. (Borgatta, Encyclopedia of Sociology) Such social problems as race and gender discrimination, aggression, violence, and drug abuse are brought to the forefront in the world of sports. Athletes are viewed as the ultimate role models for their avid fans. The purpose of this pathfinder is to serve as a guideline for the student in locating library materials on this topic. It is not intended as a comprehensive listing of all the resources available in the library, but as a selective sampling of the many types of materials available.
SUBJECT HEADINGS
Books dealing with sociology of sport are listed in the Baddour Librarys on-line catalog under the following subject headings:
SportsUnited StatesSociological aspects
Discrimination in sportsUnited States
There are sources located in the Reference Section of the Baddour Library that give a general overview or summary of the topic you are researching. The following is a list of some of the sources available in the library.
OVERVIEW SOURCES
REF HM 17.E5 1991 Encyclopedia of Sociology
REF HM 585.W67 2001 World of Sociology
CIRCULATING BOOKS
Some representative books from the Circulating Collection located on the second floor of the library are:
Birrell, Susan & Cheryl L. Cole. Women,
Sport and Culture. Champaign, IL: Human
Kinetics, 1994.
Cunningham, George B.
Diversity in Sport Organizations. Scottsdale, Ariz:
Holcomb Hathaway Publishers, 2007.
Eitzen, D. Stanley. Sociology of North American
Sport. Madison, Wisconsin: W.C.B.
Brown & Benchmark, 1993.
Hoberman, John M. Darwins
Athletes: How Sport Has Damaged Black America and
Preserved the Myth of Race. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1997.
Jowett, Sophia, David Lavallee. Social
Psychology in Sport. Champaign, IL: Human Kinetics,
2007.
King, C. Richard. Beyond the
Cheers: Race as Spectacle in College Sport. Albany:
State University of New York Press, 2001.
Lapchick, Richard E. Sport in
Society: Equal Opportunity or Business as Usual?
Thousand Oaks, Calif: Sage Publications, 1996.
Lewis, Jerry M.
Sports Fan Violence in North America. Lanham: Rowman
& Littlefield, 2007.
Lupica, Mike. Mad as
Hell: How Sports Got Away from the Fansand How We Get
It Back. New York: Putnam, 1996.
McKay, Jim. Masculinities,
Gender Relations, and Sport. Thousand Oaks, Calif:
Sage Publications, 2000.
Messner, Michael A. Sport,
Men, and the Gender Order: Critical Feminist
Perspectives. Champaign, Ill: Human Kinetics Books, 1990.
Nelson, Mariah Burton. The
Stronger Women Get, the More Men Love Football: Sexism and the American
Culture of Sports. New York: Avon Books, 1995.
Pampel, Fred C.
Drugs and Sports. New York, NY: Facts on File, 2007.
Tomlinson, Alan & Christopher Young.
National Identity and Global Sports Events: Culture,
Politics, and Spectacle in the Olympics and the Football
World Cup. Albany: State University of New York
Press, 2006.
Yiannakis, Andrew & Merrill J. Melnick. Contemporary
Issues in Sociology of Sport.
Chanpaign, ILL: Human Kinetics, 2001.
PERIODICALS, JOURNALS & TRADE PUBLICATIONS
Click the link for a
list of full text journals available through our
databases in:
Open Access Journals in
Sports Science
Updated
07/24/2008
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