Author Description

The three articles in this special issue of SSJview the sociology of sport in North America during the past 30 years. The first paper by George Sage addresses commonalities of physical education, sociology, and the sociology of sport. The second paper by David Rowe, Jim McKay, and Geoffrey Lawrence examines the evolution of sport sociology in Australia. The concluding paper by Peter Donnelly and Alan Ingham represents a sociology of the sociology of sport in North America in which the authors consider the development of the sociology of sport to date and raise intellectual challenges concerning the future growth of the field.