SOC 4451 - Social Inequality, Sport and the Body (3)

Social inequality is investigated, using sport and the treatment of bodies as an institutional examples. Social science theories of inequality are applied to the empirical example of sport. Explanations for inequality, critiques, and possibilities for change are examined within the microcosm of the sports world. How bodies are subject to and act to change social inequality is central. Course fulfills GE synthesis D4.

Prerequisite(s): SOC 201, SOC 2201 or CRM 2201; Completion of GE Areas A1, A2, A3, D1, D2, and D3.
GE Area(s): D4
Component(s): Lecture
Grading Basis: Graded Only
Repeat for Credit: May be taken only once