Sport in the American culture and its impact on society.
Athena Title
Sport and Society
Semester Course Offered
Not offered on a regular basis.
Grading System
A - F (Traditional)
Student learning Outcomes
Students will be able to understand and explain how sport is embedded in the social, political, and economic structures of American Society.
Students will be able to identify how powerful individuals as well as ordinary people shape the sporting experience.
Students will be able to understand and explain how sport both unifies and segregates individuals, social classes, racial and ethnic groups, and competing political loyalties.
Topical Outline
1. A Sociological Perspective of Sport
2. Social Images and Sport
3. Structures of Social Inequality: Social Class and Sport
4. Structures of Social Inequality: Gender Inequality in Sport
5. Structures of Social Inequality: Racial Inequality in Sport
6. Sport and the State: The Political Economy of American Sport
7. Commercialization of Sport: From Informal to Corporate Organization
8. Mass Media and Sport: Managing Images, Impressions, and Ideology
9. The Professional Team Sports Industry
10. Power and Ideology in Intercollegiate Sport
11. Building Character Through Youth and School Sport
12. Sport as a Site for Agency: Resistance and Transformation
