Sport and Social Inequalities |
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| Authors: | Ramón Spaaij Karen Farquharson Timothy Marjoribanks |
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| Institution: | 1. College of Sport and Exercise Science, Institute of Sport, Exercise and Active Living (ISEAL), and Centre for Cultural Diversity and Wellbeing (CCDW)Victoria University;2. Department of Sociology and AnthropologyUniversity of Amsterdam;3. Utrecht University School of Governance;4. Department of Education and Social SciencesSwinburne University of Technology;5. La Trobe Business SchoolLa Trobe University |
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| Abstract: | This article reviews recent research on the relationship between sport and social inequalities, focusing on gender, race, nation and social mobility. Through an engagement with these areas of research, we highlight how sport reflects and reinforces broader hierarchical structures; how it serves as a site for both inclusion and exclusion, but in ways that work unevenly; and how sport is ultimately a site for social reproduction of hierarchy and social stratification. We argue that the gender, racial and national hierarchies that sport is embedded within interact to largely prevent sport from being a site for social mobility, despite popular myths to the contrary. |
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