PESS 303: SPORT AND SOCIETY

This course is aimed at introducing students to the conceptual and analytical explanation of the relationship between and among individuals, groups, society and sport. It will also examine the effect of gender, disability, ethnicity and class in sport participation. Topics include sociological theories; functionalists, conflict and critical theorists‘ perspectives of sport; commercialization in sport; sport and the media; discrimination in sport; doping in sport; the relationship between sport and tourism; sport and religion; violence, hooliganism, bribery and corruption in sport and the role of stakeholders in sport.