SPORTS AND SOCIOLOGY

Sports and Sociology

Sports and Sociology Concepts

Introduction

Playing, watching, and involving in activities related to sports is massively renowned in United States. These activities can be expounded and delineated by the concept of functionalists and conflict perspective. If we compare the sport to other activities including recreation and exercise, people prefer sports. Sports relates to the physical activities to engross in any of the game such as football, table tennis, basketball, or baseball (Goerge, 2002). There are two salient concepts in sociology that expounds this concept. First concept relates to functionalist perspective and the second concept refers to conflict perspective. ...