Sociology of Sport Journal

Papers
(The median citation count of Sociology of Sport Journal is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
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Challenging the Gender Dichotomy: Examining Olympic Channel Content Through a Gendered Lens28
Changing on the Fly: Hockey Through the Voices of South Asian Canadians20
Degrees of Difficulty: How Women’s Gymnastics Rose to Prominence and Fell From Grace18
“Who Am I ... a Hockey Player”: Indigenous Generosity and the Transformative Power of Education in Hockey Spaces15
“A Lot of What We Ride Is Their Land”: White Settler Canadian Understandings of Mountain Biking, Indigeneity, and Recreational Colonialism14
Rugby, Nationalism, and Deaf Athlete Counterhegemony: Insights From the Case of Fiji13
Counter Stories on the Meaning of Sport in the Lives of Black Youth Who Are Incarcerated11
Mobile Mega-Event Expertise in an “East Asian Era”11
Anti-Black Racism and Soccer in Canada: Is It Because I’m Black, Ref?9
“He Could Be Dangerous”: Orientalism, Deradicalization, and the Representation of Refugee Muslim Boxers in TSN’s Radical Play9
How Sports Identification Compares to Political and Religious Identification: Relationships to Violent Extremism and Radicalization9
Stability and Change in Sports Fandom Over Time: A Longitudinal Study of U.S. Women’s Professional Soccer Fandom8
“They Do Not Represent Our Gym”: How CrossFit Affiliates Define Community as They Respond to Racial Controversy8
Reflections on Working With Black Youth From Underserved Communities in the United States: Decolonizing My Whiteness Through Critical Collaborative Interrogation8
Women Take Power: A Case Study of Ghanaian Journalists at the Russia 2018 World Cup8
Becoming Fans: Socialization and Motivations of Fans of the England and U.S. Women’s National Football Teams8
“Compatriot” or “Stateless”: Iranian State-Owned Media and Social Media Depictions of Iranian Refugee Kimia Alizadeh’s Match at the Tokyo Olympic Games7
“Soul on Ice”: Black Commodification, Race, and the National Hockey League7
To Live, Play, and Die in Tianjin: Football as Biopolitical Assemblage in Contemporary China7
The Black College Athletes’ Burden: A Critical Analysis of Race, Civic Engagement, and Activism of National Collegiate Athletic Association Athletes5
Driving Change? Field Containment of Gender Equality Committees in International Sports Governance5
Athlete Migration in Global Sports: The Case of East-African Runners in Brazil5
Gender, Sexual, and Sports Fan Identities5
Sport and Transnational Indigenous Solidarity From Turtle Island to Palestine? Examining Iroquois Nationals’ 2018 Trip to Israel5
Nationalism and Anti-LGBTQ+: Exploring the Role of Nationalism in Soccer Fans’ Protests Against LGBTQ+ Equal Rights5
“There Will Always Be Opposition”: Collegiate Coaches’ and Athletic Administrators’ Perceptions of LGBTQIA+ Pride Initiatives5
Does Sport Bring Different Racial/Ethnic Groups Together? Examining U.S. Adults’ Beliefs and the Impact of Youth and Adult Sport Experiences5
Can There Be “Normal” Sport in an Abnormal World? Sport Boycott and Athlete Activism for Ceasefire in Gaza5
Black Hair Is a Safe Sport Issue!: Black Aesthetics, Access, Inclusion, and Resistance5
Reconstructing, Challenging, and Negotiating Sex/Gender in Sport: U.S. Public Opinion About Transgender Athletes’ Rights, Rights for Athletes With Varied Sex Characteristics, Sex Testing, and Gender S5
The “Misfitting” Potential of Disability: Navigating Ableism in Swimming4
Critical Friends, Dialogues of Discomfort, and Researcher Reflexivity in the Sociology of Sport4
“What Is Lost so That Other Things Can Be Sustained?”: The Climate Crisis, Loss, and the Afterlife of Golf4
Being Involved in Sports or Giving Up: The Effects of Context on Teenage Girls’ Practice in French Disadvantaged Urban Neighborhoods4
The Age of Fitness: How the Body Came to Symbolize Success and Achievement4
“I Realize My White Privilege Certainly Has Contributed to This Whole Experience”: White Undergraduate Sport Management Students Engagement With Racism in a Sport-For-Development Service-Learning Cour4
The Making of a College Athlete: High School Experiences, Socioeconomic Advantages, and the Likelihood of Playing College Sports4
Anti-Racism in Sport Organizations4
Legitimizing and Transforming Gender Relations Within the Contemporary Equestrian Sport of Charrería in Mexico4
Negotiating the New Urban Sporting Territory: Policing, Settler Colonialism, and Edmonton’s Ice District4
Sport and the Promise of Artificial Intelligence: Human and Machine Futures4
How Racial Tasking Leads to Inequitable Financial Remuneration Among Power-5 College Football Coaches4
Stereotype Threat and Interscholastic Athletic Leadership4
The Production of Coaching: A Critical Examination of Space in Coaching4
Auto-Phenomenographical Understandings of Transness: Lessons in the Self4
When Sport Fandom Meets Motherhood: A Qualitative Exploration of Women’s Experiences4
“Futures—Past,” A Reflection of 40 Years of the Sociology of Sport Journal: An Introduction3
Women Caring for Retired Men: A Continuation of Inequality in the Sport Marriage3
The Influence of Confucianism on Para-Sport Activism3
Marketing Politics and Resistance: Mobilizing Black Pain in National Football League Publicity3
Economies of Mourning, Canadian Nationalism, and the Broncos: An Affective Reading of TSN’s 29 Forever3
Intertwining Influences on Perceptions of Risk, Pain, and Injury in Sport: A Close Study of a Chinese New Immigrant Mother–Daughter Pair3
Wrestling With Jello: “Good Dads” and the Reproduction of Male Dominance in Children’s Baseball3
Once You See It, You Can’t Unsee It? Racial Justice Activism and Articulations of Whiteness Among White Collegiate Athlete Activists3
Embodiment in Active Sport Tourism: An Autophenomenography of the Tour de France Alpine “Cols”3
Fighting Visibility: Sports Media and Female Athletes in the UFC3
Overcoming Gender Barriers in Sports—An Opportunity of Adventure/High Risk Sports?3
“Just Existing Is Activism”: Transgender Experiences in Martial Arts3
Contradiction or Cohesion? Tracing Questions of Protection and Fairness in Scientifically Driven Elite Sport Policies3
Letter from the Editor: Celebrating SSJ’s 40th Anniversary3
Erratum. Trans Women and/in Sport: Exploring Sport Feminisms to Understand Exclusions3
Sociology of Sport in Argentina: A Review of Publications in Local Journals (1995–2020)3
Special Admission: How College Sports Recruitment Favors White Suburban Athletes3
Sports Attitudes in Childhood and Income in Adulthood3
Weighing the Body: Women Olympic Weightlifters Negotiating Weight Class, Body Image, and the Unruly Body3
Sport for Development and Transformative Social Change: The Potential of Margaret Archer’s Morphogenetic Approach to Reconceptualize a Long-Standing Problem2
Exploring Gender Diversity and Trauma- and Violence-Informed Sport for Development2
Gender Equality in the “Next Stage” of the “New Age?” Content and Fan Perceptions of English Media Coverage of the 2019 FIFA Women’s World Cup2
Gender Parity, False Starts, and Promising Practices in the Paralympic Movement2
On Thin Ice: Toward A Modified Male Peer Support Theory of Professional Hockey Players’ Violence Against Women2
Sport for Development and Decolonization in a Settler Colonial State: Physical Culture in the Lives of Indigenous Peoples Incarcerated in Canadian Prisons2
Sport, Nationalism, and the Narration of Cultural Scripts: The Death of Colin Meads and the New Zealand Imagination2
Equality Unfulfilled: How Title IX’s Design Undermines Changes to College Sports2
“I Don’t Know How You Get Past That”: Racism and Stereotyping in College Football Recruiting Media2
Enactments of Integrated, Disability-Inclusive Sport Policy by Sporting Organizations2
Jiu-Jitsu and Society: Male Mental Health on the Mats2
Virtually Masculine: Queer Men’s Experiences With Harassment in Online Video Games2
#TheyareUnited and #TheyWantToPlay: A Critical Discourse Analysis of College Football Player Social Media Activism2
Manufacturing Dreams and Investing in Future Generations: Women Athletes’ Inspirational Labor in the Marketing and Promotion of Their Sport2
Beyond Reconciliation: Calling for Land-Based Analyses in the Sociology of Sport2
“They Just Dash Us to the Side”: Race, Gender, and Negotiating Access to Basketball Spaces2
Anti-Racist Research Methods in Sport-Based Youth Development2
Saving Women’s Sport: The Case for Feminist Dialogue With the Unregulated Majority1
A Queer Cooptation of Sport: RuPaul’s Drag Race Contestants as Athletes in a Culture of Risk and Injury1
Exposures of Hypermasculinity: Aesthetic Portrayals of Disengaged “Hockey Boys” in a Specialized Sports Academy1
A Proposal for an “Environmental Sports Journalism” (ESJ) Approach: Principles and Illustrative Examples From Coverage of the Rio 2016 and PyeongChang 2018 Olympic and Paralympic Games1
The Non-Sweet Sixteen: Referee Bias Against Historically Black Colleges and Universities in Men’s College Basketball1
Women’s Bodies, Femininity, and Spacetimemattering: A Baradian Analysis of the Activewear Phenomenon1
Action Sports and the Olympic Games: Past, Present, Future1
Running (for) the Military: An Ethnography of Sport Militarism at the Canada Army Run1
Should College Athletes Be Allowed to Be Paid? A Public Opinion Analysis1
Moving Beyond Models: Theorizing Physical Disability in the Sociology of Sport1
A Sporting Body Without Organs: Theorizing Un/Gendered Assemblages1
Whitewashed and Blacked Out: Counter-Narratives as an Analytical Framework for Studies of Ice Hockey in Canada1
Collective Memory and Social Movements: Football Sites of Memory in Supporters’ Activism1
Racist State and the State of Race: An Analysis of Instagram Commentary Pertaining to LeBron James1
Does Location Matter? An Econometric Analysis of Stadium Location and Attendance at National Women’s Soccer League Matches1
The Politics of Taking a Knee: Journalist Demographics and Media Analysis of the Colin Kaepernick Protest1
“The Club Management Ignores Us”: Gender-Power Relations in Women’s Football in Turkey1
Paternal Closeness in Adolescence: The Association of Sports and Gender1
Trans Women and/in Sport: Exploring Sport Feminisms to Understand Exclusions1
“Saturdays Are For The Boys”: Barstool Sports and the Cultural Politics of White Fratriarchy in Contemporary America1
Erratum. A Baltimore Benevolence Thing? American Philanthropy, Neoliberal Fitness, and the Persistence of “Colorblind” Racial Silencing1
(Un)Doing Diversity Work in a “Diverse” Space: Examining Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Work in Historically Black College and University Athletics1
Awakening to Elsewheres: Collectively Restorying Embodied Experiences of (Be)longing1
A Baltimore Benevolence Thing? American Philanthropy, Neoliberal Fitness, and the Persistence of “Colorblind” Racial Silencing1
Gender in Coed Team Sports: A Social Psychological Perspective1
An Exploration of Safe Space: From a Youth Bicycle Program to the Road1
Toward a Theory of Sportswashing: Mega-Events, Soft Power, and Political Conflict1
Pregnancy, Parenthood, and Elite Athletics: “There’s a Lot of Work Still Yet To Be Done”1
The Changing Nature of Gay Rugby Clubs in the United Kingdom1
On the Sidelines: Gendered Neoliberalism and the American Female Sportscaster0
Coaching With Latour in the Sociomateriality of Sport: A Cartography for Practice0
The Talent Paradox: Disenchantment, Disengagement, and Damage Through Sport0
Are We Really That Inclusive? An Examination of the Performance of Masculinities in Rugby Union Clubs in England, Australia, and Aotearoa/New Zealand0
Stories of Governance: Examining “Consensus” in the International Olympic Committee’s Consensus Statements on Relative Energy Deficiency in Sport0
Brittney Griner, Intersectionality, and “Woke Politics”: A Critical Examination of Brittney Griner’s Return to the United States0
A Therapeutic Landscape for Some but Not for All: An Ethnographic Exploration of the Bethlem Royal Hospital Parkrun0
“I Can’t Because I Am a Man”: Masculinity, Manhood, and Gender Equality in Sport for Development0
Community as the Concession: The Construction and Maintenance of Trans Exclusionary Binaries in Australian Sport0
The Kaepernick Effect: Taking a Knee, Changing the World0
All the Right Questions: Exploring Racial Stereotypes in Sports Press Conferences0
Privileging Difference: Negotiating Gender Essentialism in U.S. Women’s Professional Soccer0
Struggle in the Bubble: The National Basketball Association’s Response to Player Activism in the 2020 Bubble0
“Building Back Better”: Seeking an Equitable Return to Sport for Development in the Wake of COVID-190
The Myth of Load Management: Sleep and Recovery in the Women’s National Basketball Association0
The National Collegiate Athletic Association and the Exploitation of College Profit-Athletes: An Amateurism That Never Was0
Erratum. Reconstructing, Challenging, and Negotiating Sex/Gender in Sport: U.S. Public Opinion About Transgender Athletes’ Rights, Rights for Athletes With Varied Sex Characteristics, Sex Testing, and0
Feminist Sport Media Studies in SSJ: Mapping Theoretical Frameworks and Geographies of Knowledge Production0
A Critical Examination of Race and Antiracism in the Sport for Development Field: An Introduction0
Game Misconduct: Hockey’s Toxic Culture and How to Fix It0
Erratum. Career Winnings and Gender in Thoroughbred Racing0
Constructing Diaspora Space and Consciousness Through Sport and Livelihoods in Kampala, Uganda0
Fitness Philanthropy: Exploring a Movement at the Nexus of Leisure, Charity, and Events0
Mega Sport Event Volunteers: Understanding the Role of Space in Social Capital Development at the PyeongChang Winter Olympic Games0
Women Yoga Practitioners’ Experiences in the Pandemic: From Collective Exhaustion to Affirmative Ethics0
Heartbreak City: Seattle Sports and the Unmet Promise of Urban Progress0
Experiences of Normalization of Pain and Injury in Elite Adolescent Basketball0
Mountain Equipment Co-Op, “Diversity Work,” and the “Inclusive” Politics of Erasure0
College Football “Kids”: Infantilizing Language in Football Bowl Subdivision Bowl Game Broadcasts0
What Is a Girl Worth?: Gender-Based Violence and Accountability in SportsWorld0
Queering Gender Equity Policies for Trans College Athletes0
Mamba in the Mirror: Black Masculinity, Celebrity, and the Public Mourning of Kobe Bryant0
The End of College Football: On the Human Cost of an All-American Game0
Indigenous Youth (Non)Participation in Euro-Canadian Sport: Applying Theories of Refusal0
Transgender Athletes’ Testimonies of Existence and Resistance: Breaking Gender Binaries in Online Women’s Sports Media0
The Sport Marriage: Women Who Make It Work0
Saving Women’s Sports? The Ideological Underpinnings of U.S. Public Opinions About Trans* Athlete Rights and Sex Testing, Before Widespread Politicization0
Erratum. Trans* Athletes in Sport: Not Ceding to the Sex/Gender Binary of Gender Critical Feminism0
Media Analysis of Lia Thomas Surrounding 2022 National Collegiate Athletic Association Championship Win0
A Perfect Storm: Black Feminism and Women’s National Basketball Association Black Athlete Activism0
The Experiences of Women Leaders in the Higher Education Sport Sector: Examining the Gendered Organization Through Bourdieu’s Model of Field, Capital and Habitus0
Under the Influence: Marijuana, the Black Male Athlete, and Alternative Understandings of Humanity0
Sexual Assault in Canadian Sport0
Letter From the Editor0
Concussion Reporting and Racial Stereotypes: ESPN’s Role in Shaping Public Perception About Athletes of Color0
Better to Have Played Than Not Played? Childhood Sport Participation, Dropout Frequencies and Reasons, and Mental Health in Adulthood0
Sport or Party? The University Sports in Paraná0
Athletes as “Sites of Normative Intersectionality”: Critically Exploring the Ontology of Influence in Sport Coaching0
A New Typology of Out-of-School Youth Sports in 21st Century America: The Contrasting Organizational Logics of “Sport-Focused” and “Sport-for-Development” Programming Under Neoliberal Conditions0
A Different World: A BlackCrit Reconceptualization of Historically Black Colleges and Universities Athletics0
The Carceral Logic of Female Eligibility Policies: Gender as a Civilizing Narrative, the Science of Sex Testing, and Anti-Trans Legislation10
Athlete–Student–Influencer: How the Introduction of Name, Image, and Likeness in Intercollegiate Athletics Further Complicates Applications of Role Theory0
Recuperative Wokeness: Nike and the Commodification of Potential for Social Change0
From Football to Soccer: The Early History of the Beautiful Game in the United States0
Canadian National Sport Organizations’ Responses to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission: Calls to Action and Settler Silence0
What Are the Olympics For?0
“Sorry If I Offended”: The Art of Nonapology, Racism, and White Supremacy in Sport0
Factors That Reduce Parental Concern for Concussion Risks in Youth Tackle Football0
Erratum: How Sports Identification Compares to Political and Religious Identification: Relationships to Violent Extremism and Radicalization0
Unsettling the Myth of Canadian Nationhood: Hockey and Embodied Indigenous Sovereignties0
Making a Case for Sport as Avant-Garde0
A Bourdieusian Approach to Pain Management and Health in Professional Cricket0
International High-Performance Sport Camps and the Development of Emplaced Physical Capital Among Pasifika Athletes0
“A Breath of Fresh Air”: Media Framing of a Unique National Football League Draft Pick0
We’ve Come a Long Way, But We Could Be Doing Better: Gendered Commentary in U.S. Media Coverage of the 1999 and 2019 Women’s World Cup0
Anti-Black Misandry as an Emotional Reflection With Black American Male College Athletes: An Interpretative Phenomenological Study0
#ForTheGame: Social Change and the Struggle to Professionalize Women’s Ice Hockey0
Representations of Wrigley Field Redevelopment(s) in the Chicago Tribune: Neoliberal Discourse and Urban Politics0
Extraordinary Normalcy, Ableist Rehabilitation, and Sporting Ablenationalism: The Cultural (Re)Production of Paralympic Disability Narratives0
Weaponizing Sport: Exploring the Legal and Policy Implications of Menstrual Tracking for Transgender and Nonbinary Athletes0
“Quinn, Who Goes by One Name”: Examining the Media Coverage of the First Openly Trans Nonbinary Athlete to Win an Olympic Medal0
“Track’s Coed, I Never Thought of It as Separate”: Challenging, Reproducing, and Negotiating Gender Stereotypes in Track and Field0
Necropolitics Narratives and Disposition of Lives in Sport Spectacle: Negotiating the Death of Mexican Boxer Jeanette Zacarías Zapata in Quebec’s Sport/Media Landscape0
Fear, Anger, and Loneliness: Emotional Pain and Referee Attrition in English Grassroots Football0
“I Just Don’t Wanna Deal With the Headache of People Fighting Over the Internet”: A Study of Sponsored Female Climbers’ Digital Labor0
Converging Interests, Unequal Benefits? Tribal Critical Race Theory and Miami University’s Myaamia Heritage Logo0
Trans* Athletes in Sport: Not Ceding to the Sex/Gender Binary of Gender Critical Feminism10
Should Athletes Be Allowed to Protest During the National Anthem? An Analysis of Public Opinions Among U.S. Adults0
Theorizing the Moving Body in Competitive Sport0
From Exploitative Systems to Exploitative Relationships: A Black Feminist Intervention to Scholarship on Exploitation in College Athletics0
Race and Socioeconomic Composition of the High Schools of National Football League Players0
Beyond Health and Happiness: An Exploratory Study Into the Relationship Between Craftsmanship and Meaningfulness of Sport0
Trans Athletes in College Sport: Searching for a Path That Leads to Greater Inclusion0
Hyperandrogenism as a Sports Medical Pathology in the Norwegian Media: The Role of the Mass Media in Creating a Phenomenon0
Investigating the Nexus of Paralympic Bodies With Medicine0
“Getting Back on the Bike”: Risk, Injury, and Sport-Related Concussion in Competitive Road Cycling0
A Racialized Examination of the Programmatic Utility and Salary Distribution of Football Bowl Subdivision Football Coaches0
Embodied Cultural Capital, Social Class, Race and Ethnicity, and Sports Performance in Girls Soccer0
Indigenizing Sport Research: Analyzing Protective Factors of Exercising Sovereignty in North America0
Self-Presentation and Black Male College Athletes at Historically White Institutions0
The Penalty That’s Never Called: Sexism in Men’s Hockey Culture0
“They’ve Never Played the Game”: “Cool Sports Girls,” Gender Inequality, and Garbage Time in Sports Punditry0
Unrealistic Expectations and Future Status Coercion in Minor League Baseball Players’ Future-Oriented Labor0
Male High School Sport Participation and Intimate Partner Violence Perpetration in Adulthood0
Indigenous Feminist Gikendaasowin (Knowledge): Decolonization Through Physical Activity0
“Legalize Safe Standing” in English Football: Complicating the Collective and Individual Dimensions of Social Movement Activism0
Hegemony and the National Collegiate Athletic Association: A Critical Discourse Analysis of National Collegiate Athletic Association Resources Concerning Name, Image, and Likeness0
“I’m the Kind of Trans They Don’t Care About”: Experiences of Trans-Masculine Athletes in the National Collegiate Athletic Association0
Opportunities Denied: The Divergent Resonance of Opportunity for Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Hockey Players With the Now-Disbanded Beardy’s Blackhawks0
Critical Reflections on the Governance of Women and Gender Expansive Athletes: An Intersectional Interdisciplinary Dialogue0
Sports Reforms and Coaches’ Spoiled Identities: An Analysis of Structural Stigma0
The Educational Project in the Context of High-Performance Sports0
“Anesthetized Gladiators:” Painkilling and Racial Capitalism in the NFL0
The Case for Marxist–Leninist Sport: Going Beyond the Limitations of Western Liberalism0
Through the Decades: Critical Race Theory and Pathways Forward in Sport Sociology Research0
The Hat-Trick of Racism: Examining BIPOC Hockey Players’ Experiences in Canada’s Game0
The Nature of the Body in Sport and Physical Culture: From Bodies and Environments to Ecological Embodiment0
Pride Body: Racialized Gay and Queer Men’s Physique Preparation for Canadian Pride Events0
Sports and the Limits of the Binary: An Introduction0
Gender Critical Feminism and Trans Tolerance in Sports0
The Big Story of a “Small” Football Club: Gümüşlükspor as an Alternative Model Experience for Turkey0
Gender Equality and Economic Entanglements in Male-Dominated Sport Organizations: The Disruptive Value of Australian Rules Football Women0
Construction and Evaluation of the Gender Inequality in Sports Attitudes Scale—Pilot Study on Kinesiology Students in Croatia0
Trans People Struggling To Be Human in Sports and Exercise: Passing, Mediating, and Challenging Cis- and Heteronormativity0
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