Sport and Social Resistance
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22367994 |
|---|---|
| Authors | George H Sage (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Publication date | 2007-02-15 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | OTHER |
| Venue | The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/9781405165518.wbeoss238 |
| OpenAlex | W3013189532 |
| ISBN | 9781405165518 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 5 |
Social resistance is a social phenomenon in which disadvantaged, exploited, and dominated groups contest the dominating practices that nation‐states, social institutions, social organizations, and traditional cultural practices have constructed. Resistance and acts of agency – meaning the capability of individuals to construct and reconstruct their world – against abuses of power, discrimination, inequality, social injustice, and autocratic control are pervasive features of human history. There are always ongoing struggles against domination through various forms of social resistance. As British social theorist Robin Williams (1977) asserted, dominance “does not just passively exist ... It has continually to be renewed, recreated, defended, and modified. It is also continually resisted, limited, altered, challenged by pressures not at all its own” (p. 112)
CONTEST · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Inequality · Injustice · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Social change · Social inequality · Social science · Social structure · Sociology · Law · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts
| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,07 |
| Citation span | 2012 - 2012 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |