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On the 50th anniversary of the ISSA and IRSS, a foundational scholar in the formation and development of sociology of sport, George Sage, reflects on how the discipline has evolved and continues to be anchored in social consciousness and social movements. Sage traces the development of the field to the formation of the International Committee for the Sociology of Sport (which became the ISSA) and the first publication of the IRSS in the 1960s and notes how that era played a role in seating the sociology of sport in social movements and advancing change. Sage focuses on three social movement pathways that have shaped the discipline: (1) the movement challenging dominant social theories, (2) the feminist (women's) movement, and (3) the African American rights movement. The focus on social movements has continued to influence the character of the sociology of sport as it has evolved into an identifiable field of study.

In 1990, the Major League Baseball owners announced that the National League would add two new franchises in 1993. Two issues immediately confronted the various groups attempting to secure a baseball franchise for Denver. One was finding an owner for the franchise, the other was providing a stadium for the team. This study focuses on the events and social processes involved in the baseball stadium issue in Denver's bid to secure a major league baseball franchise. The taxpayers of metropolitan Denver were asked to vote on a sales tax initiative that would finance the construction and operation of a new baseball stadium ifaMajorLeagueBaseballfranchisewasultimatelyawardedtoDenver. This study centers on how various forms of power were used to persuade taxpayers that they should pay the costs of constructing a baseball stadium and how the same forms of power were later used to obtain a stadium lease agreement. Other issues addressed by this study include why citizens were not more active in questioning either the public expen diture of money for the construction of a stadium or the terms of the stadium lease agreement. Analyses and explanations for these questions are grounded in the dynamics of power as it was employed by the various entities whose interest was in securing a Major League Baseball franchise for Denver.

The purpose of this study was to compare the childhood socialization influences of male and female intercollegiate athletes in order to ascertain whether there were dif ferences in the sport socialization process between the sexes. The data indicated that parents of both male and female intercollegiate athletes tend to be involved in sports themselves, with parents of male athletes being more involved in a variety of ways than parents of female athletes. While parents of both groups are supportive of their offsprings' sports involvement, fathers tend to be more supportive of their sons than of their daughters. There is little difference in the support accorded sons and daughters by mothers. There is a weak positive relationship between socio-economic status (SES) and parental expectations, encouragement, and time spent participating with their offspring.

Sport is one of the most ubiquitous activities of modern contemporary society. The pervasiveness of sport can be seen by the enormous amount of primary and second ary involvement in it by people of all ages and social strata. Sport penetrates into and plays a significant role in all of the social institutions. The functions of play, games, and sport is a major theme running through much of the work of social scientists. Although there is no definitive list, there are seven major categories of functions of play, games, and sport: in stinct, developmental-cognitive, mastery, social integration, socialization, social control, and personal-expressive. There is a substantial body of literature in the social sciences dis cussing the importance of each of these functions.

Sport is one of the most ubiquitous activities of modern contemporary society. The pervasiveness of sport can be seen by the enormous amount of primary and second ary involvement in it by people of all ages and social strata. Sport penetrates into and plays a significant role in all of the social institutions. The functions of play, games, and sport is a major theme running through much of the work of social scientists. Although there is no definitive list, there are seven major categories of functions of play, games, and sport: in stinct, developmental-cognitive, mastery, social integration, socialization, social control, and personal-expressive. There is a substantial body of literature in the social sciences discussing the importance of each of these functions.

Sport is one of the most ubiquitous activities of modern contemporary society, given the enormous amount of primary & secondary involvement by people of all ages & social strata. Sport penetrates into & plays a significant role in all social institutions. The functions of play, games, & sport is a major theme running through much of the work of social scientists. The following major categories of functions of play, games, & sport are delineated: instinct, developmental-cognitive, mastery, social integration, socialization, social control, & personal-expressive. There is a substantial body of literature in the social sciences discussing the importance of each of these functions. HA.

The purposes of this study were (1) to assess the relationship between high school girls' motor competence and the attitudes of their parents and themselves toward the six dimensions of physical activity as measured by Kenyon's Attitude Toward Physical Activity Inventory (ATPA), and (2) to investigate the relationships between the girls' attitudes toward physical activity and their parents attitudes toward physical activity. Subjects were 242 tenth grade girls and their parents. There was no significant relationship between the motor competence of the daughters and their mothers' attitude toward physical activity. There was a signifi cant relationship between the motor competence of the daughters and their fathers' attitude toward physical activity, when the father viewed physical activity as an ascetic expression. Two attitudinal dimensions of the daughters were significantly related to their own motor competence scores; these were when physical activity was viewed as a social experience and when it was viewed as the pursuit of vertigo. There were low positive relationships between the daughters' attitude scores and both mothers' and fathers' attitude scores on the six dimensions of physical activity. With the exception of two dimensions, all of the correlations were signifi cant at the .01 level.