Introduction to the Sociology of Sport was written to offer direction and meaning to physical education (PE) students, combining the theory and practical characteristics of sociology and sport. This book has been published to address the sociology of sport’s notable distance from PE teacher training in Brazil. The published book was written by PE teachers who give lectures and conduct research in sociology of sport in undergraduate and graduate PE courses in Brazil. The book introduces the academic pillars of the sociology of sport, correlating them with factual examples of sport in Latin America. This content, therefore, apart from being an indisputable contribution to Brazilian education, may also be considered of great value to the knowledge of scholars about the sociology of global sport, as it presents particularities which may aid in the understanding of how sociocultural studies are shaped in Brazil and, to a certain extent, in Latin America. This work has not yet been translated and is, to date, written in Portuguese only. The reason for this is that the target audience of the book’s content refers to Brazilians, since the sociology of sport sub-discipline, according to the authors, is not yet contained in most undergraduate and postgraduate courses in the area of PE in Brazil, or in social sciences or sociology courses in the country and the rest of Latin America. Therefore, the book offers a didactic proposal to present and implement the sociology of sport in Brazil and, to elaborate this proposal, it is divided into six chapters, in addition to specific parts, such as final considerations, references and an annotated bibliography, where the authors make comments on theoretical works that served as a basis to reflect the themes proposed in the book. At the end of the book, there is still a space directed to the authors’ information. The introduction of the material explains the central idea of the book, which is to make discussions about and concepts of the sociology of sport accessible to all interested parties – this is especially promising to supply some deficiencies found in the Brazilian academic education, mostly of PE teachers. By offering an overview of the content contained in the book from the outset, the book provides the international public with an understanding of the scenario of the main pillars that sustain the discussions of the 925737 IRS0010.1177/1012690220925737International Review for the Sociology of SportBook review book-review2020

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书评：体育社会学导论

体育社会学导论结合社会学和体育的理论和实践特点，旨在为体育教育 (PE) 学生提供方向和意义。出版这本书是为了解决体育社会学与巴西体育教师培训之间的显着距离。出版的书是由体育教师撰写的，他们在巴西本科和研究生体育课程中进行体育社会学讲座和研究。这本书介绍了体育社会学的学术支柱，将它们与拉丁美洲体育的实际例子联系起来。因此，该内容除了对巴西教育做出无可争辩的贡献外，还可以被认为对学者们了解全球体育社会学的知识具有重要价值，因为它呈现的特殊性可能有助于理解社会文化研究在巴西以及在一定程度上在拉丁美洲是如何形成的。该作品尚未翻译，迄今为止仅用葡萄牙语编写。这样做的原因是本书内容的目标读者是巴西人，因为据作者称，体育子学科的社会学尚未包含在巴西体育领域的大多数本科和研究生课程中，或者在该国和拉丁美洲其他地区的社会科学或社会学课程中。因此，本书提供了一个在巴西介绍和实施体育社会学的教学建议，为了详细说明这个建议，除了具体的部分，如最终考虑，参考文献和带注释的参考书目，作者对理论作品发表评论，作为反映书中提出的主题的基础。在书的最后，还有一个空格指向作者的信息。材料的介绍解释了本书的中心思想，即让所有感兴趣的各方都可以了解体育社会学的讨论和概念——这特别有希望弥补巴西学术教育中的一些缺陷，主要是体育教师。通过从一开始就概述本书中包含的内容，本书让国际公众了解支持 925737 IRS0010 讨论的主要支柱的情景。