SOC3014 ST: Sports in US Society

The spectacle that is modern, corporatized sport has more going on with it than the extraordinary athleticism that so entertains and fascinates us. Whatever we might accomplish athletically, approached sociologically, sports show us who gets to do the accomplishing, according to what terms, and why. Dominant social values and norms are reproduced and contested in the realm of sports, and we will use sociological theory to peel back the veneer of athletics to analyze this and its implications, which may be alternately inspiring or disturbing. Applying functionalist, conflict, and interactionist sociological theories, the course guides us to understand how, like all forms of popular culture, organized sports constitute a forum in which both the impetus and resistance to social change play out in American (U.S.) society. Credits: 3

WRT1012 Lecture Min Credits: 3.00 And ANT1011 Lecture Min Credits: 3.00 Or PSY1011 Lecture Min Credits: 3.00 Or SOC1011 Lecture Min Credits: 3.00