Assessing the Sociology of Sport: On Cultural Sensibilities and the Great Sport Myth
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On the 50th anniversary of the ISSA and IRSS, Jay Coakley, a foundational scholar in the development
of the sociology of sport, reflects on the lasting power of the Great Sport Myth (GSM) to shape cultural understandings of sport.