Abstract
![CDATA[For sociologists subscribing to a hierarchical model of culture, sports may be regarded as its antithesis: a bodily practice, of little cultural consequence, gazed on by passive spectators for the enrichment of the leisure and media industries. The neglect of sports as a sociological subject until relatively recently may be attributed to a common resistance within intellectual culture to engagement with the corporeal realm of popular pleasure. However, the increasing prominence of (especially electronically mediated) sports, a more open-minded attitude within sociology to what has often been dismissed as “mass” or “low” culture, and the influence of interdisciplinary approaches (especially cultural studies) has created space for a developed cultural sociology of sport. This shift by no means signals a theoretical, conceptual, and methodological consensus concerning sports and culture in the discipline, but, rather, a new willingness to explore their relationship within a sociological framework.]]
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology |
| Editors | George Ritzer |
| Place of Publication | U.S. |
| Publisher | Blackwell |
| Pages | 4668-4677 |
| Number of pages | 10 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9781405124331 |
| Publication status | Published - 2007 |
Keywords
- culture
- sociological aspects
- sports