Collins, P.H. (2000). (2nd ed). Black feminist thought: Knowledge, consciousness, and the politics of empowerment. Routledge.
(note: you may choose any chapter from this text) (e-book)
Andrew M.Colombo-Dougovito, Tracy Everbach, and Karen Weiller-Abels (Eds.). (2022) Not Playing Around: Intersectional Identities, Media Representation, and the Power of Sport. Lexington Books. New York.
Andrew M.Colombo-Dougovito, Tracy Everbach, and Karen Weiller-Abels (Eds.). (2022) Not Playing Around: Intersectional Identities, Media Representation, and the Power of Sport. Lexington Books. New York. (ebook)
Everbach, T., Nesbitt G.S., Weiller-Abels, K. #SayHerName: The WNBA and Black Women Athletes’ Social Activism.. In A. Colombo-Dougovto, T. Everbach, and K. Weiller-Abels . In A. Colombo-Dougovito, T. Everbach, and K. Weiller-Abels. Not Playing Around. Intersectional Identities, Media Representation and the Power of Sport. (2022) pp 143-157.
Andrew M.Colombo-Dougovito, Tracy Everbach, and Karen Weiller-Abels (Eds.). (2022) Not Playing Around: Intersectional Identities, Media Representation, and the Power of Sport. Lexington Books. New York. (ebook)
Everbach, T., Nesbitt, G.S., and Weiller-Abels, K. (2021). Rebel, rebel! How Megan Rapinoe’s celebrity activism forges new paths for athletes. In M. Yannity and D.S. Coombs. 2019 FIFA Women’s World Cup. (pp. 267-289).
(note: This chapter fits with the chapters from Eitzen on gender. This could be Chapter 1, 2, 7, 8). You could also use this for media).
Krane, V. (Ed). (2019). Sex, gender ad sexuality in sport: Queer inquiries. Routledge.
(note: you may choose any chapter from this text). This book most closely aligns with Chapter 7 and 8)
Below you will find general topics as related to Chapters in the Eitzen text. Keep in mind, Eitzen covers aspects related to sport in multiple chapters.
Chapters 1 and 2
The Power of sport and the Great sport myth (The Duality of Sport)
The Duality of Sport (Sport is a microcosm of society)
Coakley, J. (2015). Assessing the sociology of sport: On cultural sensibilities and the great sport myth:. International Review for the Sociology of Sport 50(1); 402-406.
Lagnaeert, S.& Roose, H. (2016). Exploring the adequacy and validity of ‘sport’: Reflections on a contested and open concept. International Review for the Sociology of Sport 5(14): 485-498.
Spaaij, R., Magee, J., & James, R. (2014). Sport and social exclusion in global society. Routledge (e-book)
Chapter 4 (Sport is Fair, Sport is Foul); Chapter 6 (Organization of Youth Sport); Chapter 5 (Sport is Healthy, Sport is Destructive)
Atkinson, M. and Young, K. (2012). Shadowed by the corpse of war: Sport spectacles and the spirit of terrorism. International Review for the Sociology of Sport 47(3): 286-306.
Brackenridge, C., Bishopp, D., Moussali, S., & Tapp, J. (2008). The characteristics of sexual abuse in sport: A multidimensional scaling of events described in media reports. International Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology, 16(4): 385-406.
Braun, R. & Vliegenthart, R. (2008). The contentious fans: the impact of repression, media coverage, grievances and aggressive play on supporters violence. International Review for the Sociology of Sport 23(6), 796-818,
Bradley, G. L. (2010). Skate parts as context for adolescent development. Journal of Adolescent Research 25(2): 288-323.
Barreito, J.A. & Howard, R. (2017). Incorporating unstructured free play into organized sports. Strength and Conditioning Journal, 39(2): 11-19.
Coakley, J. J. (2006). The good father: Parental expectations and youth sports. Leisure Studies 25(2): 153-163.
Coakley, J. J. (2015). Fields of play: An ethnography of children’s sports. Sociology of Sports Journal, 32, 110-111.
Coakley, J. J. (2011). Youth sports: What counts as “positive development?” Journal of Sport and Social Issues, 35, 306-324.
Eliasson, I. (2017). The gap between formalized children’s rights and children’s real lives in sport. International Review for the Sociology of Sport. 52(4): 470-496.
Hopple, C.J. (2018). Top 10 reasons why children find physical activity to be unfun. Strategies: A Journal for Physical and Sport Educators.31(3): 40-47.
Jayanthi, N. & Brenner, J. (2017). Caring for the young athlete: past, present, and future. British Journal of Sports Medicine. 51(3): 141.
Jennings, A. & Sambrook, C. (2000). The great Olympic swindle: When the world wanted its games back.. New York, NY: Simon and Schuster (print book) (on reserve)
Sefiha, O. (2012). Bike racing, neutralization, and the social construction of performance enhancing drug use. Contemporary Drug Problems 39(Summer): 213-245.
White, P. and McTeer, W. (2012). Socioeconomic status and sport participation at different developmental stages during childhood and youth: Multivariate analysis using Canadian national hockey data. Sociology of Sport Journal 29(2): 186-209.
Chapter 7 – Sport is Expressive, Sport is Controlled
Acosta, R.V. and Carpenter, L.J. (2015). Women in Intercollegiate Sport: A Longitudinal Study – Thirty-five year Update, 1977-2015. West Brookfield, MA: Carpenter/Acosta. Online: www.acostacarpenter.org.
Adams, C. & Leavitt, S. (2018). ‘It’s just girls’ hockey’: Troubling progress narratives in girls’ and women’s sport. International Review for the Sociology of Sport 53(2), 152-172.
Allison, R. & Knoester, C. (2021). Gender, sexual, and sports fan identities. Sociology of Sport Journal. 38(3). 310-321.
Allison, R. (2016). Business or cause? Gendered institutional logics in women’s professional soccer. Journal of Sport and Social Issues, 40(3), 237-262.
Anderson, E and McCormick, M. (2018). Inclusive masculinity theory: Overview, reflection and refinement. Journal of Gender Studies. 27(5), 547-561.
Bryson, L. (1990). Challenges to male hegemony in sport. In M. Messner & D. Sabo (eds.), Sport, men and the gender order (pp. 173-184). Champaign, IL: Human Kinetics
Bernstein, A. (2000). Is it for a victory lap? Changes in media coverage of women in sport. International Review for the Sociology of Sport, 37, 415-428.
Coleman, D.L. (2019). A victory for female athletes everywhere. https://quillette.com/2019/05/03/a-victory-for-female-athletes-everywhere/
Comley, C. (2016). “We have to establish our territory”: How women surfers ‘carve out’ gendered spaces within surfing. Sport in Society 19(8/9). 1289-1298.
Cooky, C. & Dworkin, S.L. (2013). Policing the boundaries of sex: A critical examination of Gender Verification and the Caster Semenya Controversy. Journal of Sex Research, 50: 2, 103-111.
Cooky, C., Dycus, R., & Dworkin, S.L. (2013). “What makes a woman a woman?” versus “Our first lady of sport:” A comparative analysis of the United States and the South African media coverage of Caster Semenya. Sport & Social Issues, 37: 1, 31-56.
Connell, R. W. & Messerschmidt. (2005). Hegemonic Masculinity: Rethinking the Concept Gender and Society. 19(6). 829-859. http://www.jstor.org/stable/27640853.
Cheryl Cooky1 , Michael A. Messner2 , and Robin H. Hextrum Women Play Sport, But Not on TV: A Longitudinal Study of Televised News Media. Communication & Sport 1(3) 203-230 DOI: 10.1177/2167479513476947 com.sagepub.com
Everbach, T. and Mumah, J. (2014). “They never do this to men”: College women athletes’ responses to sexualized images of professional women athletes. Women in Sport and Physical Activity Journal, 22, 92-99.
Everbach, T., Nesbitt, G.S., &Weiller-Abels, K. (2021). Rebel, Rebel! How Megan Rapinoe’s celebrity activism forges new paths for athletes. In M. Yannity & D. Sarver Coombs. (Eds.). 2019 FIFA Women’s World Cup: Media, Fandom, and Soccer’s Biggest Stage. Palgrave MacMillan
Ezzell, M. B. (2009). “Barbie dolls” on the pitch: Identity work, defensive othering, and inequality in women's rugby. Social Problems, 56(1), 111-131.
Frisby, C.M. (2017). Sacrificing dignity for publicity: Content analysis of female and male athletes on ‘Sports Illustrated’ and ‘ESPN the Magazine’ covers from 2012-2016. Scientific Research 5(2), 120-135.
Kidd, B. (1990). The men’s cultural center: Sports and the dynamic of women’s oppression/men’s repression. In M. A. Messner, & D. F. Sabo (eds.), Sport, men and the gender order: Critical feminist perspectives (pp. 31-44). Champaign, IL: Human Kinetics.
Knight, J.L., & Giuliano, T.A. (2003). Blood, sweat, and jeers: The impact of the media’s heterosexist portrayals of perceptions of male and female athletes. Journal of Sport Behavior. 26(3). ProQuest Research Library.
Marie Hardin and Erin Whiteside. Token responses to gendered newsrooms Factors in the career-related decisions of female newspaper sports journalists. Vol. 10(5): 627–646 DOI: 10.1177/1464884909106536
Kolata, G. (2019). Track and field tries to understand new rules for intersex athletes. New York Times. (May 8). https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/08/sports/semenya-xy-chromosomes.html
Krane, V. (2001). We can be athletic and feminine, but do we want to? Challenging hegemonic femininity in women’s sports. Quest, 53, 115 – 133.
Kauer, K.J. & Krane, V. (2006). “Scary dykes and feminine queens.” Stereotypes and female collegiate athletes. Women in Sport and Physical Activity Journal. 15, 42-45.
Meyers, D. (2019). The obsession with Caster Semanya’s body was racist from the very beginning. Deadspin.comi. (May 4). https://deadspin.com/the-obsession-with-caster-semenyas-body-was-racist-from-1832994493
Pavlidis, A. & Fullagar, (2013). Becoming roller derby grrrls: Exploring the gendered play of affect in mediated sport cultures. International Review for the Sociology of Sport 48(6), 673-688.
Seagrave, J.O. (2016). Challenging the gender binary: The fictive and real world of quidditch. Sport in Society 19(8/9): 1299-1315.
Staurowsky, E. J.& Weight, E.A. (2011). Title IX literacy: What coaches don’t know and need to find out. Journal of Intercollegiate Sport 4(2): 190-209.
Villalon, C. and Weiller-Abels, K. (2018). NBC’s televised media portrayal of female athletes in the 2016 Rio Summer Olympic Games: A critical feminist view. Sport in Society. DOI: 10.1080/17430437. 2018.1442206.
Weiller, K. H., Higgs, C. T. & Greenleaf, C. (2004). Analysis of media commentary at the 2004 Olympic games. Media Report to Women, 32, 14-21.
Weiller-Abels, K., Everbach, T., & Colombo-Dougovito, A. (2021). She’s a lady: he’s an athlete: They have overcome: Portrayals of gender and disability in the 2018 Paralympic Winter Games. Journal of Sports Media. 16(1): 123-148.
Xu, Q., & Billings, A. (2021). Challenging the gender dichotomy: Examining Olympic channel content through a gendered lens. Sociology of Sport Journal 38(4), 412-420.
Chapter 8 – Are Sports Played on a Level Playing Field
Note: This chapter includes aspects of race, class, and gender. Please refer to other chapters as well for gender articles.
Bimper, A.Y., Harrison, L., and Clark, L. (2013). Diamonds in the rough: Examining a case of successful black male student athletes in college sports. Journal of Black Psychology, 39, 107-130.
Carter, A.R. & Algerian, H. (2010). Perspectives of mentoring: The Black female student-athlete. Sport Management Review. 13: 382-394.
Clammer,J. (2015). Performing ethnicity: Performance gender, body and belief in the construction and signaling of identity. Ethnic and Racial Studies 38(13): 2159-2166.
Edwards, H. (2000). The decline of the black athlete (as interviewed by D. Leonard). ColorLines. 3(3): 29-34.
Fletcher, T. and Hylton, K. ‘Race,’ Whiteness and Sport (2017). In J. Nauright & D.K. Wiggins (Eds). Sport, Race and Ethnicity. New York: Routledge International Handbooks.
Harrison, C.K., Lawrence, S.M., & Bukstein, S.J. (2011). White college students’ explanation of white (and Black) athletic performance: A qualitative investigation of white college students. Sociology of Sport Journal. 28(3). 347-361.
Holland, P.W. (2008). Causation and race. In T. Zuberi and E. Bonilla-Silva. (eds). White Logic, White Methods: Racism and Methodology. 93-109. New York: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. pp. 109.
Hylton, K. & Lawrence, S. (2016). ‘For your ears only!’ Donald Sterling and backstage racism in sport. Ethnic and Racial Studies. 39(15): 2740-2757
Lapchick, R., Donovan, D., Rogers, S, & Johnson, A. (2016). Racial and Gender Report Card: College Sports.
Lapchick, R., Dominguez, J., Martinez, L., & Rogers, S. (2017). The 2014 Racial and Gender Report Card: Major League Baseball.
Lapchick, R., Dominguez, J., Martinez, L., & Rogers, S. (2015). The 2015 Racial and Gender Report Card: National Football League.
Marks, C. (2008). Methodologically eliminating race and racism. In T. Zuberi and E. Bonilla-Silva. (eds). White Logic, White Methods: Racism and Methodology. p. 47-62. New York: Rowman& Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Newman, J. I. (2007). “Old times they are not forgotten: Sport, identity and the confederate flag in the Dixie south.” Sociology of Sport Journal, 24, 261-282.
Rheenen, D. V. (2012). Exploitation in college sport: Race, revenue and advertising reward. International Review for the Sociology of Sport, 48, 550-571.
Singer, J.N. (2005). Understanding racism through the eyes of African American male student-athletes. Race, Ethnicity and Education, 8, 365-386.
Winant, H. (2015). Race, ethnicity and social science. Ethnic and Racial Studies. 38(13): 2716-2185.
Chapter 9 – Mass Media and Sport
Galily, Y. (2014). When the medium becomes “well done”: Sport, television, and technology in the 21st century. Television and New Media. 15(8): 717-724.
Musto, M., Cooky, C., & Messner, M.A. (2017). “From fizzle to sizzle!” Televised sports news and the production of gender-bland sexism. Gender and Society. 31(5) 573-596.
Real, M. R. (1998). MediaSport: Technology and the commodification of postmodern sport. In L.A. Wenner, (Ed)., MediaSport (pp. 14-26). London/NY: Routledge.
Chapter 10 – Big Time College Sports
Clopton, A.W. & Finch, B.L. (2010). College sports and social capital: Are students ‘bowling alone?’ Journal of Sport Behavior 33(4): 1-20.
Clopton, A. (2011). Social capital and college sports: In search of the bridging potential of intercollegiate athletics. Journal of Intercollegiate Sport 4(2). 174-189.
Gurney, G.S. (2018). How to (maybe) reduce academic fraud in athletics. The Chronicle of Higher Education (January 28).: https://www.-chronicle-com.libproxy/uccs.edu/article/How-to-Maybe-Reduce-Academic/242350.
Hatteberg, S.J. (2018). Under surveillance: Collegiate athletics as a total institution. Sociology of Sport Journal 35(2): 149-158.
Lindo, J.M., Swensen, I.D. & Waddell, G.R. (2012). Are big-time sports a threat to student achievement? American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, American Economic Association: 26(4): 463-472.
You may include popular press articles on NIL for this section.
Section on Ableism and Empire of the Normal
Beauchamp-Pryor, K. (2011). Impairment, cure and identity ‘Where do I fit in’? Disability & Society 26(1): 5-17.
Brittain, I. & Beacom, A. (2016). Leveraging the London 2012 Paralympic Games: What legacy for disabled people? Journal of Sport and Social Issues 40(6): 499-521.
Carter, N. & Williams, J. (2012). ‘A genuinely emotional week.’: Learning disability, sport and television – notes on the Special Olympics GB National Summer Games 2009. Media, Culture & Society 34(2): 211-227.
Harpur, P. (2012). From disability to ability: Changing the phrasing of the debate. Disability and Society 27(3): 325-337.
Olenik, L.M., Matthews, J.M. & Steadward, R. D. (1995). Women, disability and sport: Unheard voices. Canadian Women’s Studies. 15(4). 54-57.
Oliver, M. (2013). The social model of disability: Thirty years on. Disability and Society 28(7): 1024-1026.
Purdue, D. E.J & Howe, D. (2015). Plotting a paralympic field: An elite disability sport competition viewed through Bordieu’s sociological lens. International Review for the Sociology of Sport 50(1): 83-97.
Silva, C.F. & Howe, P.D., (2012). The (in)visibility of supercrip representation of Paralympian athletes. Journal of Sport and Social Issues. 36(2): 174-194.
Weiller-Abels, K., Everbach, T., & Colombo-Dougovito, A. (2021). She’s a lady: he’s an athlete: They have overcome: Portrayals of gender and disability in the 2018 Paralympic Winter Games. Journal of Sports Media. 16(1): 123-148.
Chapter 14 – Challenges – Changing the Face of Sport
Donnelly, P., Atkinson, P, M., Boyle, S., & Szto, C. (2011). Sport for development and peace: A public sociology perspective. Third World Quarterly 32(3): 589-560.
Evers, C. & Doering, A. (2019). Lifestyle sports in East Asia. Journal of Sport and Social Issues. 43(5): 343-352.
Kioussis, G.N. (2018). Can a manager dope? Match analysis in the digital age. International Review for the Sociology of Sport 53(7): 824-836.
Other
Hesse-Biber, S.N. (2017). The Practice of Qualitative Research. (3rd ed.). Sage.
Additional articles for Spring 2024 (also see book chapters at beginning of this list)
Hylton, K. (2021). Black lives matter in sport…? 40 (1). 41-48;
Lambert, M. (2010). The power of sport. South African Journal of Sports Medicine. 21. DOI: 10.17159/2413-3108/2009/v2113a572.
Power games: a critical sociology of sport. Shugden, J. & Tomlinson A. (Eds). (2022). Routldege: London.
Power games: a critical sociology of sport. Shugden, J. & Tomlinson A. (Eds). (2022). Routldege: London. (e-book)
