NASSS Affiliated Blog

Engaging Sports provides sociologically-informed analysis to help readers think about sports in a way that goes beyond the scores, highlights, and statistics. The site is intended for sport participants, fans, coaches, administrators, students, media members, and anyone else interested in better understanding sports in society. Engaging Sports is a collaborative effort led by scholars affiliated with the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport (NASSS). Broadly, the mission of NASSS is to promote, stimulate, and encourage the sociological study of play, games, sport, and physical culture. Engaging Sports provides a forum for people affiliated with NASSS to engage the broader public with their work.

Readers of Engaging Sports should realize that NASSS is an organization comprised of individual scholars throughout the world. Thus, the ideas expressed on this site are the views of particular individuals, not those of the organization as a whole.