Sociology of Sport and Social Theory

Chapter 1. Towards a Sport Ethic: Science, Politics and a Moral Compass for Modern Sport
Chapter 2. Figurational Sociology and the Sociology of Sport
Chapter 3. Beyond the Sociological Imagination: Doing Auto-ethnography to Explore Intersections of Biography and History
Chapter 4. The Sociology of Science: Sport, Training, and the Use of Performance-Enhancing Substances
Chapter 5. Sport and Urban Development
Chapter 6. Using the Theory of Institutional Logics to Examine Big-Time College Sport
Chapter 7. Sport, Religion, and the Double-Movement of Secularization in America
Chapter 8. Feminist Theory and the Study of Sport: An Illustration from Title IX
Chapter 9. Race, School Attachment, and the Role of High School Sports
Chapter 10. Race, Class and Gender Theory: Violence Against Women in the Institution of Sport
Chapter 11. Masculinities and the Sociology of Sport: Issues and Ironies in the 21st Century
Chapter 12. Getting Girls in the Game: Negotiations of Structure and Agency in a Girls' Recreational Sport Program
Chapter 13. Mundanity of Excellence: Tiger Woods and Excellence in Golf
Chapter 14. Making It Big: Visible Symbols of Success, Physical Appearance, and Sport Figures
Chapter 15. Sport and Multiple Identities in Post-War Trinidad: The Case of McDonald Bailey

Earl Smith is a research scientist in the area of sport sociology. He has over 20 years of university level teaching on courses dedicated to the sociology of sport and has a good research record in this specific area. Earl is also a past President of North American Society for Sociology of Sport (NASSS).