The vibrant growth in global academia’s focus upon examining sport’s significance for modern society reflects sports impact on the intersecting domains of culture, identity, politics, governance, business, industry, communication, technology and so on. Sport in Society is an international forum for academics and professionals to engage in these critical debates. The journal publishes original and outstanding peer-reviewed articles and commentaries that advance the understanding of key issues in professional and recreational sport, physical education and exercise, lifestyle and ‘alternative’ sport, and coaching in a social context.
The journal intends to establish a working alliance among scholars in all disciplines of humanities and the social sciences as a way of promoting multi-disciplinary and inter-disciplinary research. It also places high value on research by professionals that complement academic studies of the dynamic relationship between sport and society. In its commitment to promote studies of formerly or currently marginalised human groups and geographical regions, the journal encourages submissions that address issues related to the Third World, postcolonial societies, gender, sexuality, development, peace, and social justice, broadly defined. The Editorial Board welcomes submissions that demonstratively convey impact on end users.
To keep the journal accessible to a wide audience, we do not take into consideration highly specialised quantitative research that use statistical analysis formulas such as regression, uncertainty coefficient, t-test, z-test, chi square, analysis of variance, covariance structure, and so on. In addition to conventional scholarly articles of around 10,000 words including references, general issues carry commentaries of 5,000 or fewer words. Commentaries are perspective pieces on systemic and structural issues in contemporary sport, written in the form of interviews, research notes, or policy recommendations.
Peer Review Policy
Sport in Society is an international peer-reviewed journal which publishes original research contributions to scientific knowledge and convey impact.
All manuscript submissions are subject to initial appraisal by the Editor, and, if found suitable for further consideration, to peer review by independent, anonymous expert referees.
All peer review is double anonymized and submission is online via ScholarOne Manuscripts. You can submit to the journal by clicking here.
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Executive Academic Editors: Boria Majumdar (
Biography), School of Modern Media, UPES, India
Souvik Naha, University of Glasgow, UK
Deputy Executive Academic Editors: David Hassan, University of Ulster at Jordanstown, UK
John Hughson, International Football Institute, University of Central Lancashire, UK
Associated Editors Thomas Fletcher, Leeds Beckett University, UK
Rory Magrath, Solent University, UK
Verity Postlethwaite, University of Manchester, UK
Damion Sturm, Massey University, New Zealand
Stuart Whigham, Oxford Brookes University, UK
Book Reviews Editor: Geoff Kohe, School of Sport & Exercise Sciences, University of Kent at Medway, UK
Asia Pacific Sport and Social Science: Tien-Chin Tan, National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan
Jung-Woo Lee, University of Edinburgh, UK
Social Impacts of Sport: Ramon Spaaij, Victoria University, Australia, and University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Business of Sport: Vijay Pereira, NEOMA Business School, Reims Campus, France
Social Media Editor: Trisha Ghosal
Editorial Board: Alan Bairner, Loughborough University, UK
Hilary Beckles, University of the West Indies at Cave Hill, Barbados
Sean Brown, Northern Virginia Community College, USA
Eric Brymer, Australian College of Applied Psychology, Australia
Bo Carlsson, Linnaeus University, Sweden
Shushu Chen, University of Birmingham, UK
Peter Donnelly, University of Toronto, Canada
Terry Engelberg, James Cook University, Australia
Richard Giulianotti, Loughborough University, UK
Richard Xiaoqian Hu, Tsinghua University, China
Ren-Shiang Jiang, National Taiwan University of Sport, Taiwan
Katharine Jones, Philadelphia University, USA
Bruce Kidd, University of Toronto, Canada
Ping-Chao Lee, National Taichung University of Education, Taiwan
Dominic Malcolm, Loughborough University, UK
Jonathan Manley, Oxford, UK
Dan Parnell, University of Liverpool, UK
Sandra S. Radenovic, University of Belgrade, Serbia
Randy Roberts, Purdue University, USA
David Rowe, Western Sydney University, Australia
Martha Saavedra, University of California at Berkeley, USA
Kath Woodward, The Open University, UK
Jinming Zheng, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Sport in Society is covered by the following abstracting & indexing services:
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EBSCOhost - Political Science Complete , 1/1/2004- ; PsycINFO , 2006- TOC Premier (Table of Contents), 1/1/2004-
Elsevier BV - Scopus , 2005-
OCLC - CSA Sociological Abstracts (Cambridge Scientific Abstracts), Core
Ovid - PsycINFO , 2006-
ProQuest - Biological Sciences , Selective; CSA Social Services Abstracts (Cambridge Scientific Abstracts), Selective; CSA Sociological Abstracts (Cambridge Scientific Abstracts), Core; CSA Worldwide Political Science Abstracts (Cambridge Scientific Abstracts), Selective; Health and Safety Science Abstracts (Online) ; PsycINFO , 2006-
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