Information Package / Course Catalogue
Sport and Social Inequality
Course Code: SPYB530
Course Type: Area Elective
Couse Group: Second Cycle (Master's Degree)
Education Language: Turkish
Work Placement: N/A
Theory: 3
Prt.: 0
Credit: 3
Lab: 0
ECTS: 5
Objectives of the Course

The aim of this course is to explain what practices and difficulties social classes face when choosing sports activities in the strategies they use to protect their class boundaries through their tastes in their lifestyles.

Course Content

Sports activities, which are one of the leisure activities of people, provide indicators to sociologists in understanding the stratification of societies. In other words, one of the means of measuring stratification in societies is the diversity of sports activities. Whether by participating or watching sports events, they reflect the differences of social strata. Because each social layer wants to be different from the other and makes these differences visible in the whole of daily life. Therefore, he uses artistic and sports activities to distinguish his own social layer from the one below. As a result of being seen as a matter of preference both in terms of access to sports activities and in terms of internalizing the preference of the social strata from which they come, we can talk about sportive activities specific to strata.

Name of Lecturer(s)
Learning Outcomes
1.Be able to define the concept of social inequality in society
2.Explain the concept of inequality in sports
3.Can distinguish types of social inequality
4.Give examples about social inequality
5.Provide information on ethnic and cultural discrimination and gender inequality in sports.
Recommended or Required Reading
1.Inequality - What Can Be Done? - Efil Publishing House - Anthony Atkinson
2.Social Divisions 4 edition: Inequality and Diversity in Britain – Geoff Payne and Eric Harrison - 2020
3.Social Inequality / Patterns and Processes - Fifth Edition Martin N. Marger - Mc Graw Hill, 2010
Weekly Detailed Course Contents
Week 1 - Theoretical
Explaining the basics of the concept of social inequality
Week 2 - Theoretical
Differences between the concepts of equality and inequality
Week 3 - Theoretical
Effects of Social Inequality Problem
Week 4 - Theoretical
Social Inclusion
Week 5 - Theoretical
Inclusive Education and Diversity
Week 6 - Theoretical
Causes of Social Inequality in the Global Age
Week 7 - Theoretical
Culture-based social inequality
Week 8 - Intermediate Exam
Midterm
Week 9 - Theoretical
Social Inequality, Hierarchy and Multiple Discrimination
Week 10 - Theoretical
Examples and analysis of inequality in sport
Week 11 - Theoretical
Examples and analysis of inequality in sport
Week 12 - Theoretical
Examples and analysis of inequality in sport
Week 13 - Theoretical
Examples and analysis of inequality in sport
Week 14 - Theoretical
Examples and analysis of inequality in sport
Week 15 - Final Exam
Final Exam
Assessment Methods and Criteria
Type of AssessmentCountPercent
Midterm Examination1%40
Final Examination1%70
Workload Calculation
ActivitiesCountPreparationTimeTotal Work Load (hours)
Lecture - Theory1480112
Midterm Examination1404
Final Examination1606
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours)122
Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes
PÇ-1
PÇ-2
PÇ-3
PÇ-4
PÇ-5
PÇ-6
OÇ-1
5
5
5
OÇ-2
4
4
3
2
OÇ-3
4
OÇ-4
4
OÇ-5
4
4
3
Adnan Menderes University - Information Package / Course Catalogue
2026