APA 1302 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Contemporary Sociology, Anthony Giddens

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Human Kinetics
• Course: APA 1302
• Professor: Michael Robidoux

Document Summary

We must see sports as social phenomena that have meanings beyond everyday experience. What these meanings produce assist us in understanding: the societies in which sport exist, the social worlds that are created around sports, the experiences of individuals and groups associated with sport. Sociology enable students/researchers to examine these issues through concepts and theories that emphasize the social as opposed to individual causes and that point toward structural solution to problems identi ed in sport. Sociology is the disciplined study of human social behaviour, especially the investigation of the origins, classi cations, institutions and developed of human society on a global level. Sociology is interested in social interactions that take place between humans, groups, and societies. It examines which social structures, power relations, and institutions enable and constrain individuals and groups. It is concerned with social rules and ideologies that bind people together and separate them.