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Sport and alcohol - Who's missing? New directions for a sociology of sport-related drinking

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posted on 2023-05-17, 17:26 authored by Palmer, C
This paper presents a series of emerging research avenues and agendas for under-represented aspects of sport-related drinking. Extending the findings of a previous paper, which mapped the dominant themes in sociological treatments of drinking and sport to date, this paper argues for the importance of widening the empirical and theoretical base so as to better understand and explain the diversity and complexity of drinkers and drinking in sport. Drinking by female fans and sportswomen, non-drinkers in drinking environments, the role and place of religion, ethnicity, gender and social class in practices of inclusion and exclusion in sport-related drinking practices and the plurality of masculinities, among others, are all presenting new kinds of relationships to sport and alcohol that have not been subject to sustained critical sociological scrutiny from within sport. The research questions and the problematics these raise for studies of social and cultural aspects of sport (and drinking) highlights the need to reassess and reinvigorate the theoretical frameworks and dominant orthodoxies that drive social research into the sport–alcohol nexus. © 2013 International Sociology of Sport Association and SAGE Publication

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Publication title

International Review for The Sociology of Sport

Volume

49

Issue

3/4

Pagination

263-277

ISSN

1012-6902

Department/School

School of Social Sciences

Publisher

Sage Publications Ltd.

Place of publication

London, UK

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Copyright 2013 The Author(s)

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