Sport in American Society

Toward a Sporting  Sociological Imagination

Course: KNES 287 Hybrid

Section: HY61/FF61

Instructor: Adam. S. Beissel

Teaching Assistant: N/A

Office Hours: by appointment 


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MODULE 1:

STRUCTURE AND PROCESSES

  1. A. Sport and the Sociological

  2.     Imagination

  3. B. Sport and the Neoliberal 

  4.     Political Order

  5. C. The Corporeal Economy

  6.     of Sport

  7. D. Society of the Sporting

  8.     Spectacle

MODULE 2:

BODIES AND IDENTITIES

  1. A. Power, Sport, and

  2.     Masculinities

  3. B. Sporting Femininities and

  4.     Body Hierarchies

  5. C. Social Class, Habitus, and

  6.     Physical Culture

  7. D. Race, Ethnicity, and

  8.      Sporting Difference

MODULE 3:

COLLECTIVITIES AND SPACES

  1. A. The Performance of Sport

  2.     Subcultures

  3. B. Physical Culture and the 

  4.     Neoliberal City

  5. C. Sporting Communities

  6. D. The Imagined Sporting

  7.     Nation



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