Course Details
Country:
United Kingdom
Institution:
University of Leicester
Course Title:
Football and Society
Course Number:
Course Description:
Welcome to Football and Society. You need have no knowledge about football to do well on this module. But you do need an enquiring mind, curiosity about both the past and present events and social processes and a sociological imagination. Professional football is often described as the national sport in Britain and it has historic associations in this country with military, territorial, occupational and profoundly masculine and often racialised forms of ‘tribalised’ identification. Football has long been an important site for expressions of community affiliation and identity formation and for symbolic struggles between communities of rival working class towns and cities, though its origins are much more complex. Football has interesting and contentious gender, class, regional and ethnic roots. Its emergence has synergies with political and sociological developments around localism and nationalism, and its post-war trajectory is shaped by wider social trends. The growth of the women’s game has been
Language:
English
Approved Equivalent:
SOCI 3__
Attachment Files:
SY3057 handbook 2021-22 - Tagged.pdf
