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“Futures—Past,” A Reflection of 40 Years of the Sociology of Sport Journal: An Introduction Sociology of Sport Journal (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2023-12-01 Letisha Engracia Cardoso Brown, Chen Chen, Tomika Ferguson, Courtney Szto, Anthony Jean Weems, Natalie Welch
Journal Name: Sociology of Sport Journal Volume: 40 Issue: 4 Pages: 346-351
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Letter From the Editor Sociology of Sport Journal (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2023-11-06 Cheryl Cooky
Journal Name: Sociology of Sport Journal Volume: 40 Issue: 4 Pages: 345-345
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The Penalty That’s Never Called: Sexism in Men’s Hockey Culture Sociology of Sport Journal (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2023-10-31 Teresa Anne Fowler, Shannon D.M. Moore, Tim Skuce
During the summer of 2022, Hockey Canada faced a reckoning regarding its outright denial of the ways in which gender-based violence is a part of hockey culture. This paper shares data from a study that involved qualitative interviews with semi/professional men’s ice hockey players regarding their resistance to the expectations of hypermasculinity in hockey culture. Hypermasculinity is the elevated
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Through the Decades: Critical Race Theory and Pathways Forward in Sport Sociology Research Sociology of Sport Journal (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2023-10-27 Jonathan E. Howe, Ajhanai C.I. Keaton, Sayvon J.L. Foster, A. Lamont Williams
Critical race theory (CRT) is a powerful framework and methodological tool for sport scholars and practitioners to incorporate into their work. While CRT tenets vary depending on discipline, individuals utilizing the framework understand the permanence of racism and how it is institutionalized within various social structures. In honor of the 40th year of the Sociology of Sport Journal, we conducted
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Beyond Reconciliation: Calling for Land-Based Analyses in the Sociology of Sport Sociology of Sport Journal (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2023-10-19 Ali Durham Greey, Alexandra Arellano
This article examines the possibilities engendered by land-based analyses within the sociology of sport. We examine how “Canada’s” Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s calls to action on sport reproduce a logic of social inclusion, one which assimilates Indigenous athletes and Peoples into settler models of sport. To consider epistemological tools for unsettling settler sport systems, we turn to critical
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Stereotype Threat and Interscholastic Athletic Leadership Sociology of Sport Journal (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2023-10-19 James P. Strode, W. Andrew Czekanski, Anna W. Parkman, Meredith K. Scarlata
Women have historically been underrepresented in positions of power within athletic administration. Stereotype threat, or the realization that there is a possibility that one is being judged as confirming or being reduced to a stereotype, can negatively impact the recruitment and retention of woman leaders in sport. This study developed and validated a new scale, the Gender Stereotype Threat in Athletic
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Virtually Masculine: Queer Men’s Experiences With Harassment in Online Video Games Sociology of Sport Journal (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2023-10-19 Jeremy Brenner-Levoy
Video games are an understudied sport featuring social interactions both similar and dissimilar to those in offline sports. While anonymity in online video games could create a space where minoritized groups experience more equitable treatment, offline social inequalities are translated into online video game interactions. Drawing on 20 semistructured interviews and 2,694 survey responses from self-identified
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Critical Friends, Dialogues of Discomfort, and Researcher Reflexivity in the Sociology of Sport Sociology of Sport Journal (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2023-10-11 Adam Ehsan Ali, Tavis Smith, Michael Dao
In this special issue, which calls for a “more radical sociology of sport and physical culture,” the purpose of this paper is to address how practices of reflexivity might be mobilized among critical sport scholars toward changing the intersectional, fragmented, and complex communities we inhabit inside and outside the academy. We begin by conducting a literature review of researcher reflexivity and
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Erratum. Reconstructing, Challenging, and Negotiating Sex/Gender in Sport: U.S. Public Opinion About Transgender Athletes’ Rights, Rights for Athletes With Varied Sex Characteristics, Sex Testing, and Gender Segregation Sociology of Sport Journal (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2023-09-22 Sociology of Sport Journal
Journal Name: Sociology of Sport Journal Volume: 41 Issue: 1 Pages: 108-108
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Reconstructing, Challenging, and Negotiating Sex/Gender in Sport: U.S. Public Opinion About Transgender Athletes’ Rights, Rights for Athletes With Varied Sex Characteristics, Sex Testing, and Gender Segregation Sociology of Sport Journal (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2023-09-22 Chris Knoester, Rachel Allison, Victoria T. Fields
Using data from the National Sports and Society Survey (N = 3,993), this study considers U.S. public opinion about transgender athletes’ rights, rights for athletes with varied sex characteristics, sex testing, and gender segregation in sports. Social structural location, social group, and ideological characteristics are examined as predictors of these opinions. Results indicated that most U.S. adults
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Gender Equality in the “Next Stage” of the “New Age?” Content and Fan Perceptions of English Media Coverage of the 2019 FIFA Women’s World Cup Sociology of Sport Journal (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2023-07-05 Stacey Pope, Rachel Allison, Kate Petty
This article offers an original contribution by examining both the quantity and quality of English print media coverage of the 2019 FIFA Women’s World Cup and how fans perceive and respond to this coverage. It is the first longitudinal analysis of media coverage of women’s football in the United Kingdom and compares print media coverage between the 2015 and 2019 FIFA Women’s World Cups. We draw on
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Does Location Matter? An Econometric Analysis of Stadium Location and Attendance at National Women’s Soccer League Matches Sociology of Sport Journal (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2023-06-23 Tarlan Chahardovali, Nicholas M. Watanabe, Ryan W. Dastrup
This study examines the impact of stadium locations on attendance in the National Women’s Soccer League (NWSL). We develop a match-level attendance model incorporating control variables such as market factors and consumer preferences to assess attendance for NWSL games. Our results indicate that attendance drops the further an NWSL stadium is from the city center. Specifically, the coefficients suggest
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Weighing the Body: Women Olympic Weightlifters Negotiating Weight Class, Body Image, and the Unruly Body Sociology of Sport Journal (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2023-06-02 Monica Nelson, Shannon Jette
Women athletes’ experiences of gendered body ideals and empowerment have been well-documented. However, the existing literature largely neglects strength sports, which have a complex relationship with gendered norms given their historical association with masculinity and wide range of weight classes. In this article, we use a feminist poststructuralist lens to explore how eight Olympic Weightlifters
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Unrealistic Expectations and Future Status Coercion in Minor League Baseball Players’ Future-Oriented Labor Sociology of Sport Journal (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2023-06-02 Christopher M. McLeod, Nola Agha, N. David Pifer, Tarlan Chahardovali
This study examines minor league baseball players’ future-oriented labor by interviewing 44 baseball players and collecting data on 8,000 minor league baseball players’ careers. Minor league baseball players’ expectations of reaching Major League Baseball impacted how they evaluated their work in the present, leading them to tolerate unfair pay and working conditions. We show that players’ expectations
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Feminist Sport Media Studies in SSJ: Mapping Theoretical Frameworks and Geographies of Knowledge Production Sociology of Sport Journal (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2023-05-24 Dunja Antunovic
This conceptual review identifies the contributions of the Sociology of Sport Journal to the subfield of feminist sport media studies. Since the first issue of Sociology of Sport Journal, over 60 articles addressed primarily the media representations research area of feminist sport media studies, using a range of theoretical frameworks that mirrored theoretical shifts in the field. An empirical analysis
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A Critical Examination of Race and Antiracism in the Sport for Development Field: An Introduction Sociology of Sport Journal (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2023-05-18 Meredith A. Whitley, Joseph N. Cooper, Simon C. Darnell, Akilah R. Carter-Francique, Kip G. O’Rourke-Brown
Journal Name: Sociology of Sport Journal Volume: 40 Issue: 2 Pages: 113-120
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Anti-Racist Research Methods in Sport-Based Youth Development Sociology of Sport Journal (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2023-05-04 Jennifer E. McGarry, Kolin Ebron, Jesse Mala, Michael Corral, Nneka Arinze, Kerry Mattson, Khalil Griffith
In this article, we examine the process of conducting anti-racist research in Sport for Development, specifically Sport-Based Youth Development programs in the United States. We acknowledge that participatory methods have been both identified and problematized as approaches to challenge the racialized experiences of youth. We share examples of attempts at Youth Participatory Action Research utilized
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“Soul on Ice”: Black Commodification, Race, and the National Hockey League Sociology of Sport Journal (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2023-04-26 Kia Cummings, Benjamin Burroughs
The NHL has a long-standing, problematic relationship with race. The North American sporting and racial climate have brought even more attention to this reality. A notable tactic to counter the accusation of reinforcing racism within sports corporations, including the NHL, is publicly associating themselves with minoritized organizations. This often occurs through formal partnerships or the acquisition
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Whitewashed and Blacked Out: Counter-Narratives as an Analytical Framework for Studies of Ice Hockey in Canada Sociology of Sport Journal (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2023-04-21 Alex I. McKenzie, Janelle Joseph
Despite a longstanding relationship with hockey, Black Canadians are typically erased from dominant histories of Canada and sport. Erasure is detrimental to Black prosperity because it encourages social death, a process that socially marginalizes and dehumanizes Black Canadians. In response to Black erasure, we detail counter-narratives that challenge the historically whitewashed account of hockey’s
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A Proposal for an “Environmental Sports Journalism” (ESJ) Approach: Principles and Illustrative Examples From Coverage of the Rio 2016 and PyeongChang 2018 Olympic and Paralympic Games Sociology of Sport Journal (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2023-04-14 Brian Wilson, Liv Yoon
This article introduces/rationalizes an attempt to conceptualize “environmental sports journalism (ESJ).” ESJ refers to a set of principles for analyzing and/or reporting on media coverage of sport-related environmental issues—principles intended to support/promote dialogue and nuanced thinking about these issues and about how sports journalism might contribute to environmentally friendly and just
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Contradiction or Cohesion? Tracing Questions of Protection and Fairness in Scientifically Driven Elite Sport Policies Sociology of Sport Journal (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2023-04-14 Anna Posbergh
Much of the resistance and, at times, outright condemnation of including transgender individuals in sports continue to draw upon “scientific” arguments, despite the acknowledged importance of sociocultural and (geo)political factors, resulting in a constructed “either science or human rights” landscape. In this article, I analyze historical scientifically driven International Olympic Committee documents
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Anti-Racism in Sport Organizations Sociology of Sport Journal (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2023-03-31 Ajhanai C.I. Keaton
Journal Name: Sociology of Sport Journal Volume: 40 Issue: 2 Pages: 121-122
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“I Realize My White Privilege Certainly Has Contributed to This Whole Experience”: White Undergraduate Sport Management Students Engagement With Racism in a Sport-For-Development Service-Learning Course Sociology of Sport Journal (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2023-03-25 Max Klein, Garret J. Zastoupil, Justin Evanovich
Sport management classrooms prepare practitioners and decision makers to work in Sport for Development (SfD). A core issue within SfD is a lack of critical racial reflexivity, particularly with racially White professionals, which maintains inequitable power structures and keeps SfD programs from reaching their intended goal of facilitating positive outcomes. This study, informed by critical Whiteness
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Sport for Development and Decolonization in a Settler Colonial State: Physical Culture in the Lives of Indigenous Peoples Incarcerated in Canadian Prisons Sociology of Sport Journal (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2023-02-22 Mark Norman, Alicia G. Clifford, Robert Henry
This article considers if sport, broadly defined, can be constructed as a decolonizing practice for Indigenous Peoples incarcerated in Canadian prisons. Situating our analysis within transformative and decolonizing approaches to sport for development, we bring together disparate literatures—on settler colonialism and Indigenous incarceration, decolonization and Indigenous resurgence, and sport and
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“Who Am I ... a Hockey Player”: Indigenous Generosity and the Transformative Power of Education in Hockey Spaces Sociology of Sport Journal (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2023-01-27 Davina McLeod, Sam McKegney, Darren Zanussi, Shane Keepness
This paper examines the tenuous balance of Indigenous generosity in hockey spaces with the need for non-Indigenous players and organizers to educate themselves and others, pursue systemic change, and unburden Indigenous players of the heavy lifting of anti-racism. Interviews with five Indigenous elite women’s hockey players identify hockey as a potential site of decolonial and anti-racist learning
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Letter from the Editor: Celebrating SSJ’s 40th Anniversary Sociology of Sport Journal (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2023-01-27 Cheryl Cooky
Journal Name: Sociology of Sport Journal Volume: 40 Issue: 1 Pages: 1-2
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“Building Back Better”: Seeking an Equitable Return to Sport for Development in the Wake of COVID-19 Sociology of Sport Journal (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2023-01-23 Richard Norman, Daniel Sailofsky, Simon Darnell, Marika Warner, Bryan Heal
The COVID-19 pandemic affected sport programming by restricting in-person activities. Concurrently, global outcry for racial justice for Black and racialized communities promoted calls to action to assess equitable practices in sport, including sport for development (SFD). This study critically examined SFD “return to play” programming to include perspectives from racialized persons’ lived experiences
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Under the Influence: Marijuana, the Black Male Athlete, and Alternative Understandings of Humanity Sociology of Sport Journal (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2023-01-22 Nik Dickerson
This paper analyzes a series of advertisements from the antidrug campaign Above the Influence and interviews of former National Football League and National Basketball Association players by the website Bleacher Report regarding their marijuana use. Guided by Christina Sharpe’s theoretical concept of the “wake,” I argue that the Above the Influence adverts produce a trope I call Chronic Black male
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On Thin Ice: Toward A Modified Male Peer Support Theory of Professional Hockey Players’ Violence Against Women Sociology of Sport Journal (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2023-01-20 Walter S. DeKeseredy, Stu Cowan, Martin D. Schwartz
There was a burst of creative social scientific investigation into hypermasculine male athletes’ violence against women in the 1980s and 1990s, but this interest has seemed to have dried up. Furthermore, the extant literature on this problem is for the most part atheoretical and devoid of sociological ways of knowing. Thus, the main goal of this paper is to highlight the value of applying a modified
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Self-Presentation and Black Male College Athletes at Historically White Institutions Sociology of Sport Journal (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2023-01-20 Jonathan E. Howe
Black male college athletes (BMCAs) are in a unique position within the contexts of historically white institutions and Division I college athletics. Recently, BMCAs have increasingly presented themselves in ways that highlight specific social identities or even in opposition to the college athletic system and higher education environment. However, little has changed as power and privilege remain central
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Fighting Visibility: Sports Media and Female Athletes in the UFC Sociology of Sport Journal (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2023-01-18 Kim Toffoletti
Journal Name: Sociology of Sport Journal Volume: 40 Issue: 1 Pages: 108-109
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Gender Equality and Economic Entanglements in Male-Dominated Sport Organizations: The Disruptive Value of Australian Rules Football Women Sociology of Sport Journal (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2023-01-11 Adele Pavlidis, Simone Fullagar, Wendy O’Brien
Focusing on the Australian Football League and its development of a national competition for women, this article contributes toward broader debates around the inclusion and incorporation of women in professional sport. It traces the particular logics and desires (such as corporate expansion) that drove the Australian Football League to develop a women’s competition in the name of equality. We map the
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Counter Stories on the Meaning of Sport in the Lives of Black Youth Who Are Incarcerated Sociology of Sport Journal (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2023-01-11 Jennifer M. Jacobs, Gabrielle Bennett, Zach Wahl-Alexander
Although a significant focal point of research has been dedicated to the role of sport in the lives of youth, few articles have explored sporting experiences among incarcerated youth. Often overlooked, this population is highly disenfranchised and overrepresented by youth of color. Nonetheless, emerging research has proposed sport as an important developmental tool in the rehabilitation of juvenile
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The Big Story of a “Small” Football Club: Gümüşlükspor as an Alternative Model Experience for Turkey Sociology of Sport Journal (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2023-01-10 Rahşan İnal
This article argues that counter-hegemony, which is at the heart of sports activism, is not just an action but also the construction of alternative institutional structures. For this purpose, it investigates the practices of an amateur football club and discusses the structural problems of the Turkish amateur football league. The data, collected during a 6-month field study, were interpreted from a
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Manufacturing Dreams and Investing in Future Generations: Women Athletes’ Inspirational Labor in the Marketing and Promotion of Their Sport Sociology of Sport Journal (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2022-12-14 Tarlan Chahardovali, Christopher M. McLeod
Women athletes are often asked to participate in unpaid or underpaid community appearances and youth camps to generate fan interest, promote their sport, and inspire the next generation of athletes. The expectation to invest in the future of one’s sport for the benefit of others is a gendered process—requiring athletes to employ different forms of labor in addition to their athletic labor. Drawing
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Racist State and the State of Race: An Analysis of Instagram Commentary Pertaining to LeBron James Sociology of Sport Journal (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2022-12-10 Evan Frederick, Nicholas Swim, Ajhanai C.I. Keaton, Ann Pegoraro
The purpose of this study was to examine the evolution of social media commentary pertaining to LeBron James’ activism efforts during two pivotal moments of state-enacted anti-Blackness violence. Utilizing the lens of critical race theory and critical whiteness studies, we examined user commentary pertaining to James’ two Instagram posts responding to the state-enacted violence against Michael Brown
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“They Do Not Represent Our Gym”: How CrossFit Affiliates Define Community as They Respond to Racial Controversy Sociology of Sport Journal (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2022-11-30 Shaun Edmonds, Nancy L. Malcom, Christina M. Gipson, Hannah Bennett
Following the racist comments of the then CEO and CrossFit co-founder Greg Glassman concerning the murder of George Floyd, CrossFit affiliates took to social media to repudiate his statements. Throughout their social media posts, these affiliates struggled with their relationship to the CrossFit brand, the imagined CrossFit community, and the community formed in their local box. Using qualitative thematic
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Once You See It, You Can’t Unsee It? Racial Justice Activism and Articulations of Whiteness Among White Collegiate Athlete Activists Sociology of Sport Journal (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2022-11-24 Yannick Kluch, Emma Calow, Eric M. Martin, Travis R. Scheadler, Andrew Mac Intosh, Shannon Jolly
The goal of this study was to examine how athletes holding privileged racial identities understand their whiteness as they engage in racial justice activism. Drawing from 12 semistructured interviews with white collegiate athletes who have engaged in activism for racial justice, we identified four higher order themes which we situate within a broader discussion of how each theme either reinforces or
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Reflections on Working With Black Youth From Underserved Communities in the United States: Decolonizing My Whiteness Through Critical Collaborative Interrogation Sociology of Sport Journal (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2022-11-21 Robert T. Book, Donka Darpatova-Hruzewicz, David Dada
This autoethnographic paper introduces a decolonizing methodological process termed—critical collaborative interrogation (CCI)—one offering a more radically reflexive approach to teasing out inherent power relations within sport-for-development spaces. The process of CCI utilized four autobiographical vignettes written by the first author as means of decolonizing his whiteness, vis-à-vis, an academic
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Toward a Theory of Sportswashing: Mega-Events, Soft Power, and Political Conflict Sociology of Sport Journal (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2022-10-27 Jules Boykoff
Sportswashing has emerged full force in the 21st century, highlighting the gap between word and deed in the sports world. Yet, the term suffers from definitional imprecision and is often applied solely to autocratic hosts. This article offers a robust definition of sportswashing and—building from the soft-power approach to analyzing mega-events like the Olympics and World Cup—creates a sportswashing
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“Saturdays Are For The Boys”: Barstool Sports and the Cultural Politics of White Fratriarchy in Contemporary America Sociology of Sport Journal (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2022-10-21 Kyle Kusz, Matthew R. Hodler
Existing across multiple media platforms, Barstool Sports (“Barstool”) is one of the most important sport brands in the United States. While Barstool’s critics frequently assert that the company is “racist,” few, if any, detail how their racial politics work. Through a brief genealogy of Barstool’s cultural history and a close critical reading of “The Barstool Documentary Series,” we show how Barstool’s
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Erratum: How Sports Identification Compares to Political and Religious Identification: Relationships to Violent Extremism and Radicalization Sociology of Sport Journal (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2022-10-13
Journal Name: Sociology of Sport Journal Volume: 40 Issue: 1 Pages: 111-111
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How Sports Identification Compares to Political and Religious Identification: Relationships to Violent Extremism and Radicalization Sociology of Sport Journal (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2022-10-13 Andrew C. Billings, Nathan A. Towery, Sean R. Sadri, Elisabetta Zengaro
A national survey of 314 Americans was utilized to determine the degree in which sport identification functions similarly to political and religious identification as well as the degree to which each of the three forms of group hyper-identification correlate with violent extremism and violent radicalization. Results found that sport identification correlated with extremism but not radicalization, political
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From Football to Soccer: The Early History of the Beautiful Game in the United States Sociology of Sport Journal (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2022-10-03 Adam R. Cocco
Journal Name: Sociology of Sport Journal Volume: 40 Issue: 3 Pages: 340-341
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The Sport Marriage: Women Who Make It Work Sociology of Sport Journal (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2022-10-03 Linda J. Henderson
Journal Name: Sociology of Sport Journal Volume: 40 Issue: 3 Pages: 338-339
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A Baltimore Benevolence Thing? American Philanthropy, Neoliberal Fitness, and the Persistence of “Colorblind” Racial Silencing Sociology of Sport Journal (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2022-09-10 Ronald L. Mower
Drawing upon 3 years of fieldwork with a nonprofit fitness education development program targeting “at-risk” Baltimore youth, this article examines pedagogical barriers rooted in the perceived, and materially experienced, differences of race, gender, class, and culture. Set within the confines of increasingly privatized spaces of fitness/health in a starkly divided Baltimore, MD, this study demonstrated
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Erratum. A Baltimore Benevolence Thing? American Philanthropy, Neoliberal Fitness, and the Persistence of “Colorblind” Racial Silencing Sociology of Sport Journal (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2022-09-10
Journal Name: Sociology of Sport Journal Volume: 40 Issue: 1 Pages: 110-110
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Factors That Reduce Parental Concern for Concussion Risks in Youth Tackle Football Sociology of Sport Journal (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2022-09-06 Joseph McGlynn, Brian K. Richardson, Rebecca D. Boneau
This study sought to identify factors that reduce parental concern of concussion risks for children who play youth tackle American football. Interviews were conducted with parents who allowed children between the ages of 10 and 15 years to play on tackle football teams. Factors that reduced parental concern included advances in equipment safety and helmet technology, active parental monitoring and
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A Queer Cooptation of Sport: RuPaul’s Drag Race Contestants as Athletes in a Culture of Risk and Injury Sociology of Sport Journal (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2022-08-26 Niya St. Amant
RuPaul’s Drag Race (RPDR) is a reality television show wherein drag queens compete for the title of America’s next drag superstar. This article contends that RPDR is sport and that the queens are contestants in a culture of risk wherein queens must be willing to play through pain, risk their bodies, and demonstrate emotional toughness to succeed. A hegemonic power structure exists on RPDR wherein judges
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“They Just Dash Us to the Side”: Race, Gender, and Negotiating Access to Basketball Spaces Sociology of Sport Journal (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2022-08-24 Rhonda C. George
Using Black Feminist Theory and qualitative data gathered from 20 Black Canadian female U.S. athletic scholarship recipients, this article identifies race–gender barriers to accessing informal athletic spaces for athletic training such as recreation centers and public gyms. I argue that these access barriers are rooted in a sexist anti-Blackness, while also examining the resistance and navigational
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Coaching With Latour in the Sociomateriality of Sport: A Cartography for Practice Sociology of Sport Journal (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2022-08-03 Jordan Maclean, Justine Allen
While there is increasing recognition that sport is sociomaterial, little is known about what this means for an analysis of coaching practice. This paper develops a cartography of coaching based on an actor–network theory ethnography of two volunteer football coaches’ practices in Scotland. A sociomaterial analysis generates anecdotes that are reordered into five parts: (a) moving from the eleven-a-side
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Experiences of Normalization of Pain and Injury in Elite Adolescent Basketball Sociology of Sport Journal (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2022-07-23 Helene Joncheray, Sabine Chavinier-Réla, Fabrice Burlot, Sébastien Dalgalarrondo, Stéphane Fukazawa-Couckuyt
The objective of this article was to describe the experiences of normalization of pain and injuries among elite adolescent basketball players and their staff. A total of 10 elite adolescent basketball players, ages 15–17 years and eight members of their staff, were interviewed. Results showed that (a) for both players and staff, being able to normalize pain is considered as a necessity and requires
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Sociology of Sport in Argentina: A Review of Publications in Local Journals (1995–2020) Sociology of Sport Journal (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2022-07-22 Letícia Cristina Lima Moraes, Wanderley Marchi Júnior
This article aims to outline the characteristics of the publications on the sociology of sport found in three Argentinian journals, observing the education of the authors involved, the disciplines and subjects most investigated, and the bibliographic references most used by Argentinian authors. Based on the content analysis of this empirical evidence, we could see that the Argentinian production is
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Degrees of Difficulty: How Women’s Gymnastics Rose to Prominence and Fell From Grace Sociology of Sport Journal (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2022-07-18 Devon R. Goss
Journal Name: Sociology of Sport Journal Volume: 39 Issue: 4 Pages: 418-419
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Game Misconduct: Hockey’s Toxic Culture and How to Fix It Sociology of Sport Journal (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2022-07-18 Leah C. Oldham
Journal Name: Sociology of Sport Journal Volume: 39 Issue: 4 Pages: 416-417
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A Different World: A BlackCrit Reconceptualization of Historically Black Colleges and Universities Athletics Sociology of Sport Journal (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2022-07-14 Sayvon J.L. Foster, John N. Singer, Joseph N. Cooper
Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) have made notable social, cultural, and economic contributions to the African Diaspora, particularly since their inception in the United States. Being that HBCU athletic programs account for a small proportion of the intercollegiate athletic industry, these unique entities are often examined in the same vein as their Historically White Institution
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Investigating the Nexus of Paralympic Bodies With Medicine Sociology of Sport Journal (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2022-07-14 Nancy Quinn, Laura Misener
Medical discourse regarding impairment and (dis)ability dominate assumptions of Paralympic sport. This research examined the lived experience of the first author, a sport physiotherapist and veteran of many Paralympic Games, to consider the experience of sport medicine with Para sport athletes. Self-ethnography and a theoretical lens informed by a human rights approach to disability were used. Structural
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Indigenous Youth (Non)Participation in Euro-Canadian Sport: Applying Theories of Refusal Sociology of Sport Journal (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2022-07-09 Jessica R. Nachman, Lyndsay M.C. Hayhurst, Audrey R. Giles, Rochelle Stewart-Withers, Daniel A. Henhawk
Much of the research on Indigenous youth’s sport has focused on the barriers that they experience in accessing opportunities for participation. What remains underexplored is the idea that nonparticipation might actually reflect Indigenous youth’s deliberate refusal of Euro-Canadian sport. In making this argument, first, we connect Indigenous theories of refusal to Indigenous youth sport participation
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The Myth of Load Management: Sleep and Recovery in the Women’s National Basketball Association Sociology of Sport Journal (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2022-05-20 Sarah Barnes
This article uses a feminist cultural studies of sport framework to explore dominant storytelling about sleep in the Women’s National Basketball Association. In a historical moment when rest is understood as a vital component in athlete performance, being denied full access to the conditions and resources that are imagined to be conducive to sleep is problematic. However, the Women’s National Basketball
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Mega Sport Event Volunteers: Understanding the Role of Space in Social Capital Development at the PyeongChang Winter Olympic Games Sociology of Sport Journal (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2022-05-20 Alex C. Gang, Juha Yoon, Juho Park, Sang Keon Yoo, Paul M. Pedersen
This study explores the process of social capital development and the influence of space that leads to the formation of different types of social capital among mega sport event volunteers. A qualitative approach was utilized to ensure the collection of in-depth data on participants’ subjective volunteering experience and its relation to the creation of social capital. Findings revealed the development