The Sociology of Sport

Three credits · Undergraduate

An introduction to using sociological theories and concepts to analyze sport in Canada and globally. By contextualizing sporting practices, the course challenges dominant ideas about sport’s role in society and considers how intersecting social structures and identities produce diverse outcomes and lived experiences in sport. Topics include social class, gender and sexuality, race, athletic labour, and deviance within sport cultures. Credit will be granted for only one of HKIN 264 or HKIN 331. Three credits.