Emerging Sports as Social Movements

Josh Woods is Associate Professor of Sociology at West Virginia University, USA. As a social psychologist, studies the relationship between individuals and groups, between people's behavior and the social context in which they act, between individual perceptions and social forces. Josh's recent work examines emerging sports, such as disc golf, roller derby and esports. Woods is the editor at Parked, an academic blog about disc golf. He has published four academic books, two dozen peer-reviewed journal articles, and numerous publications in popular media, such as USA Today, Christian Science Monitor, The New Republic, Salon, Los Angeles Times, The Chronicle of Higher Education and Ultiworld Disc Golf.

Introduction.-  Chapter 1: The Disc Golf Movement.- Chapter 2: The Professional Disc Golf Association Pushes for Legitimacy through Competition.- Chapter 3: The Mixed Bag of Disc Golf Culture: Disc Golf as Lifestyle.- Chapter 4: The Framing of Disc Golf in News Media.- Chapter 5: The Associations Between Traditional and Social Media and the Growth of Disc Golf.- Chapter 6: Neglect, Trivialization and Stigmatization: The Framing of Disc Golf in Popular Films and Television.- Chapter 7: Disparities in Disc Golf Course Distribution in the United States.- Chapter 8: Disc Golfer Demographics.- Conclusion.