Sports Law, Ethics and Social Responsability

Recommended Prerequisites

Organization and Sport Management.

Teaching Methods

Method based on face-to-face exposition, and on another component based on papers analysis, problem resolutions and oral presentations of written works.

Learning Outcomes

The unit aims to deepen the knowledge about sports law, ethics and social responsibility in sport. More specifically, will be focused topics of sportive organizations laws, of the ethic and of the social responsibility in the sportive organizations, and of the ethic in sport.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

[i] The law of non-profit sportive organizations.

[ii] The law of profit sportive organizations.

[iii] Ethic and social responsibility of the organizations.

[iv] Practicing social responsibility.

[v] Critical factors and networks to boost social responsibility.

[vi] Ethical values and principles in sport.

[vii] Principles breaking down, preventive measures, and sanctions.

[viii] Changes and tendencies of  ethic in sports.

Head Lecturer(s)

Raul Agostinho Simões Martins

Assessment Methods

Continuous
Written work + oral presentation: 100.0%

Bibliography

Ladrière, P. (2001). Pour une Sociologie de l’Éthique. Paris : PUF.

Simon, R. L. (2004).Fair Play. The Ethics of Sport (2), Colorado: Westview Press.

Marivoet, S. (2011). "The Ethical Problems of Doping in Sport, Facts and Regulation Process. The Portuguese case in the international framework", in Pereira A. L. & Garcia, R. (Eds), A Social Perspective on Sport, Health and Environment, Proceedings of the 7th European Association for Sociology of Sport Conference (pp. 179-184).

Marivoet, S. (2010). "Sociological Approach on Sports Ethics in a Context of Social Change", Physical Culture and Sport. Studies and Research, vol. XLIX: 39-52.

Marivoet, S. (2007). Ética do Desporto. Princípios, Práticas e Tendências. Análise sociológica do caso português durante o Estado Democrático do século XX. Lisboa: ISCTE.