Sociology of Sport and Physical Education

This undergraduate text, written by key writers, lecturers and academics in the field, covers the key, current issues in the field of sociology of sport and physical education.

Anthony Laker is Degree Director in Physical Education in the Department of Exercise and Sport Science at East Carolina University in the USA.

1. The Importance of Sport in Culture 2. Theoretical Background 3. Methodological Issues in Research 4. Gender 5. The Sporting Body 6. Race and Ethnicity 7. Class, Discrimination, and Stratification 8. Equality 9. Participation and Socialisation into Sport 10. Hidden Curriculum 11. Critical Pedagogy 12. The Globalisation of Sport 13. Sport and the Media 14. Political Involvement in PE, Sport & Recreation