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Sociologie et sociétés

Les inégalité sociales dans le sportSocial Inequality in the SportPeter DONNELLY

Le sportVolume 27, Number 1, printemps 1995

URI: https://id.erudit.org/iderudit/001195arDOI: https://doi.org/10.7202/001195ar

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Cite this articleDONNELLY, P. (1995). Les inégalité sociales dans le sport. Sociologie et sociétés,27(1), 91–104. https://doi.org/10.7202/001195ar

Article abstractSport, by its very nature, produces and reveals inequalities in terms ofphysicality and athletic performance. In social terms, however, sport has beenconsidered as the great leveller. This paper considers the production andreproduction of social inequality in sport in terms of the development of ideasand research about social inequality in the sociology of sport. Specifically,inequality in sport is considered in terms of the progression from reflection toreproduction to resistance theses, and the progression from categorical todistributive to relational levels of analysis. The paper concludes with aconsideration of some ways in which sport may be involved in the productionof social equality.