scholarly journals Mobilising sociology of sport for social change beyond the pandemic

2022 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 13-22
Author(s):  
Ramon Spaaij
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Public Sociology ◽  
Sociology Of Sport ◽  
De Re ◽  
Modest Contribution ◽  
Sport For Development ◽  
Social Inequities ◽  
Transformative Practice

Amid the Covid-19 pandemic, conversations about how to build sport back better are becoming increasingly pronounced. The crisis both deepens inequities and creates opportunity as a new way to configure sport post-pandemic demands to be discovered. The challenge has been thrown down to sociologists to help reimagine and reshape the course of sport. What might such re-enchantment look like? And how might it help realise the sociology of sport’s untapped potential to advance impactful public sociology? This paper explores these questions with a particular focus on sociologists of sport as co-creators of, and actors in, social change. I discuss five issues that I see as being relevant for rethinking and reconfiguring sport beyond the pandemic: (1) reclaiming the ludic and pleasure; (2) rethinking sociality in sport; (3) social inequities and ‘sport for all’; (4) de-/re-centring power in sport for development; and (5) global interdependence and interconnectedness. The insights presented can hopefully make a modest contribution to our collective understanding of transformative practice in and through the sociology of sport in uncertain times.

Power, Politics and “Sport for Development and Peace”: Investigating the Utility of Sport for International Development

2010 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 54-75 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simon C. Darnell
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
International Development ◽  
Careful Consideration ◽  
Development Studies ◽  
Social Politics ◽  
Power Politics ◽  
Sport For Development ◽  
The Social ◽  
Dominant Ideologies ◽  
Commonwealth Games

Sport is currently mobilized as a tool of international development within the “Sport for Development and Peace” (SDP) movement. Framed by Gramscian hegemony theory and sport and development studies respectively, this article offers an analysis of the conceptualization of sport’s social and political utility within SDP programs. Drawing on the perspectives of young Canadians (n = 27) who served as volunteer interns within Commonwealth Games Canada’s International Development through Sport program, the dominant ideologies of development and social change that underpin current SDP practices are investigated. The results suggest that while sport does offer a new and unique tool that successfully aligns with a development mandate, the logic of sport is also compatible with the hegemony of neo-liberal development philosophy. As a result, careful consideration of the social politics of sport and development within the SDP movement is called for.

scholarly journals The Writing’s on the Firewall: Assessing the Promise of Open Access Journal Publishing for a Public Sociology of Sport

2013 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 359-379 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gavin Weedon
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Publishing Industry ◽  
Open Access Journal ◽  
Public Sociology ◽  
Open Access Publishing ◽  
Sociology Of Sport ◽  
Journal Publishing ◽  
The Past ◽  
Production And Consumption ◽  
Absolute Transition

The process of digitization has transformed the ways in which content is reproduced and circulated online, rupturing long held distinctions between production and consumption in the (virtual) public sphere. In accordance with these developments over the past fifteen years, proponents for open access publishing in higher education have argued that the (not yet absolute) transition from physical to digital modes of journal production opens up unprecedented opportunities for redressing the restrictive terms of ownership and access currently perpetuated within an increasingly untenable journal publishing industry. Through this article, I advocate that the sociology of sport community hastens to question, challenge and reimagine its position within this industry in anticipation of a reformed publishing landscape. The impetus for the paper is to ask not whether sociologists of sport should or should not publish open access, but rather as open access publishing inevitably comes to pass in some form, what say will the field’s associations, societies and members have in these changes, and how might they help invigorate a public sociology of sport?

Service Learning For Social Change: Raising Social Consciousness Among Sport Management Students

2016 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 127-139
Author(s):  
Kimberly A. Bush ◽  
Michael B. Edwards ◽  
Gareth J. Jones ◽  
Jessica L. Hook ◽  
Michael L. Armstrong
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Service Learning ◽  
Sport Management ◽  
Social Consciousness ◽  
Management Research ◽  
Sport For Development ◽  
The Social ◽  
Community Issues ◽  
Management Students

Recently, scholars of sport management have called for more research aimed at understanding how sport can be leveraged for social change. This interest has contributed to a burgeoning paradigm of sport management research and practice developed around using sport as a catalyst for broader human and community development. In order for sport practitioners to successfully develop, implement, and sustain these programs, integration of development-based theory and concepts are needed in sport management curricula. Service learning is one pedagogical approach for achieving this objective, and is well suited for promoting social change practices among students. This study assesses how participation in a sport-for-development (SFD) service learning project impacted the social consciousness and critical perspectives of sport management students. Results suggest the experience raised student’s awareness of community issues, developed a more holistic perspective on the role of service, and influenced their future careers.

Examining Social Capital Development Among Volunteers of a Multinational Sport-for-Development Event

2015 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jon Welty Peachey ◽  
Jennifer Bruening ◽  
Alexis Lyras ◽  
Adam Cohen ◽  
George B. Cunningham
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Capital Gains ◽  
Building Relationships ◽  
Sport For Development ◽  
Capital Development ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Motivation To Work

Much sport-for-development (SFD) research has focused on the impact initiatives have on participants, and not on other stakeholders such as volunteers. Some research suggests volunteerism enables social capital gains, while other scholars have been skeptical, with even less known about how volunteers are impacted by working for SFD events rather than for ongoing programs. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to investigate how, if at all, a large, multinational SFD event contributed to social capital development of volunteers. Findings revealed volunteers experienced social capital development through building relationships, learning, and enhanced motivation to work for social change and reciprocity. As very little research has examined the efficacy of SFD events in contributing to social capital development, the findings extend the literature on SFD events. It would be prudent for SFD events to target programming to impact the experience of volunteers to retain them and contribute to social capital development.

scholarly journals Sport for Social Change With Aotearoa New Zealand Youth: Navigating the Theory–Practice Nexus Through Indigenous Principles

2019 ◽  
Vol 33 (5) ◽  
pp. 481-492 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeremy Hapeta ◽  
Rochelle Stewart-Withers ◽  
Farah Palmer
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Sport Management ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
Indigenous Populations ◽  
Change Initiatives ◽  
Sport For Development ◽  
Indigenous Theory ◽  
Kaupapa Māori ◽  
Working Together

Indigenous worldviews and scholarship are underrepresented and underdeveloped in sport for development and wider sport management spaces. Given many sport for social change initiatives target Indigenous populations, this is concerning. By adopting a Kaupapa Māori approach, a strengths-based stance, and working together with two plus-sport and sport-plus cases from provincial and national New Zealand rugby settings: the Taranaki Rugby Football Union’s and Feats’ Pae Tawhiti (seek distant horizons) Māori and Pasifika Rugby Academy and the E Tū Toa (stand strong), hei tū he rangatira (become a leader) Māori Rugby Development camps, the authors provide an illustration of Indigenous theory–practice. They argue sport for social change practices that focus on Indigenous peoples would be greatly improved if underpinned by the principles of perspective, privilege, politics, protection, and people. Thus, any sport for social change praxis seeking to partner with Indigenous communities ought to be informed by Indigenous philosophical viewpoints.

scholarly journals A ESTRATÉGIA DE (RE)CATEGORIZAÇÃO NA INTERFACE ENTRE POLIDEZ E IMPOLIDEZ LINGUÍSTICA

2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (especial) ◽  
pp. 98-116
Author(s):  
Geórgia Maria Feitosa e Paiva ◽  
Francisca Poliane Lima de Oliveira
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Soft Drink ◽  
Internal Communication ◽  
De Re ◽  
The People ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Level

From the understanding that communication is established to maintain social relations and not just to inform something, many linguists have become concerned with studying the issues of politeness and impoliteness as sociated with these social manifestations of communication. In this sense, ou rresearch aimed to understand the recategorization process as na instrument of interface between polite and impolite language. From the analysis of the internal communication action promoted by the Coca-Cola company to celebrate the International LGBT Pride Day in 2017. To conduct this research, we sought to make a case study about the campaign “This Coca-Cola is Fanta. Sowhat?”. Based on the studies in the área of ”‹”‹politeness by Leech (1983), Brown and Levinson (1987), and the área of ”‹”‹gender with Butler (1990, 1993) and, in the area of ”‹”‹recategorization, with Apothéloz and Reichler-Béguelin(1995) and Jaguaribe (2007), we observed that the process of recategorization occurred in two situations: the first was in the material level from the discursive resumption of a typically offensive idiom against the LGBT group and the insertion of a new expression; The second was on the social level with the suggestion of a change in the people´s expression and attitude. Thus, we conclude that the recategorization process could not be seen, in this issue, as just a process of retaking the referent and its transformation, since, in the campaign of the soft drink brand under consideration, we realized that this process was still capable of generating a social change (beyond the pack aging of the can), thus demonstrating another level of recategorization, that is, the ability to transform a typically na impolite expression into a polite one.  

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