# SOC 98ME - Sports and Violence **Semester:** Fall **Offered:** 2019 How are sports and violence related? What role does sports play in especially-violent communities and societies? How come athletes are so often connected to violent behavior? Why are some sports more violent than others? Students will explore familiar and strange sports connections to activism, poverty, gangs, hooliganism, rioting, nationalism, war, international politics, and organized crime. We will learn why sport elicits such emotional fervor, and how that fervor is transmitted into good and bad social channels. A variety of case studies across the globe and history - from Brazilian soccer, to Cold War chess, to cricket under the British Empire - will be analyzed. This tutorial, aimed at junior concentrators, requires students to produce an original research project on a sport of their choosing (not necessarily one covered in the syllabus), addressing a particular case of sports-related violence. In addition to learning about the topic, students are expected to master skills in sociological methods and writing. Two concluding weeks will be devoted to presentations and workshopping, as students develop an independent research project with original data collection. **Link:** --- Attachments- [ description soc\_98me\_-\_sports\_and\_violence.doc ](/sites/g/files/omnuum1966/files/mandic/files/soc_98me_-_sports_and_violence.doc) --- See also:- [ Classes ](/page-categories/classes)