SOC 0465 - SOCIOLOGY OF SPORTS

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course examines sports from a political economy perspective, emphasizing wealth and power in this social institution. We will do a critical examination of the role of sports in society, amateur and professional sports and how they affect our lives. In the process, we inevitably see how sports affects how we see ourselves as a society and as individuals, including notions of class, race and gender among other things. The focus of my course is the political economy of sports including the peculiar American NCAA and Power 5 college athletics, and of course the colossal sphere of professional sports. This analysis will reveal all of the traits upon which this institution sits capitalism. That means we will see exploitation, profit and power, all in the gladiators arena of sports.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Attributes: Urban Studies

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