- SOC 120 – Sociology of Sport and Leisure (3)
- Recommended background: SOC 101. The study of sport and leisure in society is concerned with how sport influences, and in turn, is influenced by, institutions (education, politics, religion, science, economics, mass media). Sport has been described as a microcosm of our society values—competition, materialism, bureaucracy, power (Coakley, 1986; Eitzen and Sage, 1982). The pervasiveness of sport as an institution is the academic focus of the course.