SOC318
Choose any sports-related article for this assignment, provided that: (1) it comes from a printed magazine, newspaper, or scholarly journal (examples include but are not limited to: Newsweek, New York Times, Chicago Tribune, Sports Illustrated, Journal of Sport Psychology), and (2) you can find something in the article that is relevant to a minimum of three of the following concepts discussed in the course: Data Collection in Sports; Using History to Understand Sports Today; Using History to Understand Sports in the Future; Social Interaction Model; Race and Ethnicity in Sports; Gender Ideology; Deviance in Sports; and Social Class in Sports.
Your paper should include the following:
- A summary of the article you have chosen; this summary should take up no more than one page of your paper.
- A description of the concepts from the course that you find relevant in order to explain/interpret the article; this description should take up about one page of your paper.
- An explanation of how the concepts you have chosen can be applied to your chosen sports article; this section should take up most of the space in your paper.