Sports sociology examines the role and meaning of sports in society. It aims to understand how sports are shaped by social and cultural forces, and how they influence society. Sports sociology studies the socialization of individuals into sports, the values and norms of different sports cultures, and how social hierarchies can influence participation and success in sports. It also explores how sports have emerged and spread across societies over time and in relation to broader social changes.

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• AMITY SCHOOL OF PHYSICAL EDUCATION AND SPORTS SCIENCES
COURSE : SPORTS PSYCHOLOGY AND SOCIOLOGY (PEDU247)
TOPIC : MEANING ,DEFINATION AND EXPLANATION OF SPORTS SOCIOLOGY
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5. AIMS
The aims of the sociology of sport
are:
To critically examine the role,
function and meaning of sport in
the lives of people and the
societies they form
To describe and explain the
emergence and diffusion of sport
over time and across different
societies
To identify the processes of
socialisation into, through, and out
of modern sport
To investigate the values and
norms of dominant, emergent and
residual cultures and subcultures
in sport
To explore how the exercise of
power and the stratified nature of
societies place limits and
possibilities on people’s
involvement and success in sport
as performers, officials,
spectators, workers or consumers
To examine the ways in which
sport responds to social changes in
the larger society
To contribute both to the
knowledge base of sociology more
generally and also to the formation
of policy that seeks to ensure that
global sport processes are less
wasteful of lives and resources

6. FUNCTIONS
• The sociology of sport also seeks to critically examine common sense views about
the role, function and meaning that sport has in different societies. By challenging
‘natural’ and taken-for-granted views about sport, sociologists seek to provide a
more social and scientifically adequate account that can inform both the decisions
and actions of people and the policy of governments, NGO’s and sport
organisations.
Although, as in sociology more generally, there are several different perspectives
from which to examine the relationship between sport, cultures and societies,
sociologists of sport do have certain assumptions in common. For example,
sociologists, whether they examine the ‘micro’ or ‘macro’ aspects of sport, seek to
embed their research in the wider cultural and structural context.
In the context of sport sciences, sociologists of sport seek to generate knowledge
that will contribute to ‘human development’ as opposed to ‘performance efficiency’.
That is, they seek to critically examine the costs, benefits, limits and possibilities of
modern sport for all those involved, rather than focus on the performance efficiency
of elite athletes. Those sociologists working with sociology departments examine
sport in the same way they would examine religion, law or medicine – to highlight
aspects of the general human condition.

7. ROLE OF SPORTS SOCIOLOGY
• Sociologists of sport critically examine the role, function,
and meaning of sport in the lives of people and the
societies they form and attempt to describe and explain
the emergence and diffusion of sport over time and
across different societies. In doing so, they identify the
processes of socialization into, through, and out of
modern sport and investigate the values and norms of
dominant, emergent, and residual cultures and
subcultures in sport. On this basis, they explore how the
exercise of power and the stratified nature of societies
place limits, and create possibilities, for people’s
involvement and success in sport as performers, officials,
spectators, workers, or consumers.
• The sociology of sport, while grounded in sociology, also
encompasses research in history, political science, social
geography, anthropology, social psychology, and
economics.

8. ORIGIN OF SOCIOLOGY OF SPORT
• Sports sociology began to emerge as a formal discipline in
the second half of the 20th century. By the 1960s, television
had started to dedicate copious amounts of time to sports.
Professional leagues for various sports such as baseball and
football began to emerge in the United States. This was
accompanied by the Olympics being a playground for the
Cold War. During this period, many social scientists like David
Reisman, Charles Page and Erving Goffman published works
related to sports. In 1978, the North American Society for the
Sociology of Sport was founded with the objective of
exploring this field. A few years later, their research outlet
called the Sociology of Sport Journal was formed in 1984
(“Sociology of Sport” 2018).

9. REFERENCES
• https://www.slideserve.com/darva/sports-sociology-chapter-18
• http://dspace.vnbrims.org:13000/jspui/bitstream/123456789/1960/1/Sp
ort%2C%20Culture%20and%20Society%20An%20Introduction.pdf
• https://www.jstor.org/stable/2083352
• https://sportandsociety.com/
• http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1664/not-just-a-game-sport-
and-society-in-the-united-states