Sports and Society

Catalog description

Sports and Society explores the relationships between society and sports. Organized sports, as one of America's most influential social institutions, provides a lens with which modern sociologists and other interested academics or casual learner can understand difficult relationships of inequality, race/ethnicity, gender, class, and culture. By looking at the historical context in which many of the organized sports have developed as well as the present political/cultural climate in which they are currently nested, students develop a sociological imagination necessary to process a complex world. (3/0)