Sports Sociology

The development of sport and its function and importance in society is reviewed. Sport in the context of health, leisure, social exclusion and inclusion, professionalisation, economy, culture and media is investigated and discussed. The course also looks at important dimension of inequality such as gender, class, ethnicity, sexuality etc.

Knowledge - the student shall:

• gain a basic introduction to the questions tied to Physical Education and Sport from social sciences perspectives, concepts and analytical methods.

Skills - the student shall demonstrate the ability to

• use various perspectives in sports sociology in analysis of different sports related phenomenon.

Throughout the semester there are the equivalent of 4 hours of lectures and 2 hours of group discussion per week. There is a compulsory term paper based on a subject given in the lectures. The paper must be approved to be able to take the written exam. The paper can be written individually or in groups of 2-3 students. Form of assessment is a 4 hours written exam.