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In the past 15 years, sport scholars have expressed an increased interest in public sociology, while the rapid acceleration of digital media has led to significant shifts in the sport media landscape. In this paper, we analyze our experiences at the confluence of these two trends as scholarly bloggers about hockey. We present self-reflexive personal vignettes—centred around themes of engaging publics, marginality, and negative outcomes—and use intersectional analysis to critique how our privileges and social locations enabled or constrained our public engagement. In doing so, we raise theoretical and practical questions about the possibilities and challenges associated with sport scholars' digital public engagement and provide fresh contributions to ongoing debates about public sociology of sport. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The author reflects on his work on the politics of the Olympic Games and in trying to create space for activism with an ethical metric of social justice. Topics discussed include examples of high-profile athletes willing to take public stands on politicized issues, distinction between public intellectual and scholar-activists, and five lessons the author have learned through trial and error regarding public sociology. He describes his career in public-intellectual work and scholar-activism, and challenges and benefits of his work.

This article explores the emerging agenda in relation to concussion in sport to illustrate the threats and opportunities currently faced by the sociology of sport as an academic sub-discipline. The article begins by delineating aspects of the “crisis” in sociology, Burawoy’s call for an enhanced public sociology as a (part) solution, and responses to these ideas within the sociology of sport. It then identifies how the engagement of sociologists in this terrain must be understood in relation to the recent medicalization of sports-related concussion, and illustrates the impact of this on sociologists of sport through an examination of recent social scientific scholarship in relation to concussion. It argues that a successful public sociology of sport should be predicated on the subdiscipline’s distinctive contribution to the production of knowledge. To this end, the article concludes by reporting the findings of an empirical study of concussion in English professional soccer, to outline a framework for sportrelated health research, and thus the basis on which a socially influential sociology of concussion in sport could develop. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the ways of emergence of public sociology of sport in the United States. It mentions the need to work upon public engagement and the role of critical scholars of sports and physical cultures in developing sociology of sport. The writer of the article being a graduate in kinesiology University of Illinois aspired to become physical therapist but turned to the field of sociology of sport inspired after reading the works of bell hooks, Malcolm X, Derrick Bell, Marilyn Frye, and Michael Messner.

The author highlights doctor Holly Thorpe's work titled, "Athletic Women's Experiences of Amenorrhea:Biomedical Technologies, Somatic Ethics and Embodied Subjectivities," as the journal's featured lead article issue of the Sociology of Sport Journal. Topics include the award she received, "SSJ Early Career Researcher Award" from the North American ''Society for the Sociology of Sport'' in 2015, it is given annually for professionals who has completed doctorate degrees and in recognition also to their significant contributions to the sociology of the sportsfield, she has published nearly 50 journal article and book chapters on social theory, gender and action sports and is actively engaged in public sociology and policy development with several international sport organizations.