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Regional and National Sociology of Sport Associations
Below you will find a list of national and regional associations which deal either exclusively or in large proportion with the sociology of sport. Where known, links to these associations’ websites are provided:
- European Association for the Sociology of Sport
- International Society of Qualitative Research in Sport and Exercise
- Asociación Latinoamericana de Estudios Socioculturales del Deporte
- European Sociological Association (RN28)
- International Association of French-speaking Sociologists (CR35)
- Consejo Latinoamericano de Ciencias Sociales (Deporte y sociedad)
- American Sociology of Sport Association
- North American Society for the Sociology of Sport
- Albanian Sociological Association (Education and Sport Thematic Session 04)
- The Australian Sociological Association (Sociology of Sport Thematic Group)
- Sociedade Brasileira de Sociologia (CP26)
- British Sociological Association (Sport Study Group)
- Canadian Sociological Association (Sociology of sport)
- Federation Espanola de Sociologia (CI29)
- Finnish Society of Sport Sciences; LTS Liikuntatieteellinen Seura
- Association Française de Sociologie (RC41)
- Association Francophone pour la Recherche en Activités Physiques et Sportives
- Société de Sociologie du Sport de Langue Française
- Hungarian Sociological Association (Sport Sociological Division)
- Hungarian Society of Sport Science (Sport Sociological Sub-Committee )
- Indian Sociological Society (RC25)
- Japan Society of Sport Sociology
- Korean Society for the Sociology of Sport
- Mulier Institute (not an association), Netherlands
- Associação Portuguesa de Sociologia (Sociology of Sport)
- Russian Society of Sociologists (RC Sociology of Physical Culture and Sport)
- Linked to the Russian State University of Physical Education, Sport, Youth and Tourism (SCOLIPE)
- South African Sociological Association (Sport, Leisure and Society)
- Taiwan Society of Sport Sociology
- Taiwan Body Culture Society
