Dr. Christopher Grenfell

Christopher C. Grenfell, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Kinesiology
California State University - San Bernardino

EDUCATION

Ph.D.
M.S.
B.A.

University of Southern California, 1984
University of California, Los Angeles, 1973
San Diego State University, 1971

E-Mail: cgrenfel@csusb.edu
Phone: (909) 537-5412
Office: HP-209
Office Hours in Spring 2004:

Curriculum Vita [See below] |
Specialization: Socio-cultural aspects of sport and physical activity.
Teaching Areas: Sociology of sport, history and philosophy of physical activity, skiing , professional preparation and football, badminton and volleyball.
Research Interests: My research interests concern sport/physical activity and the socialization process.
Hobbies: My leisure time is spent working on my house in Lake Arrowhead (San Bernardino Mountains), traveling and skiing.

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KINE 310 History & Philosophy of Physical Activity	KINE 323 Sociology of Sport	KINE 490 Senior Seminar
Course Syllabus	Course Syllabus	Course Syllabus
Philosophic Systems	Annotated Bibliography	Critical Synthesis Profession
Ancient Greece	Article Summaries	Critical Synthesis
Middle Ages	Sport & Gender	Selected References
Renaissance	Sport & Mass Media
19th Century Germany	Sport & Politics
19th Century England	Sport & Race
Pierre Coubertin & the Modern Olympics	Sport & Social Stratification
Philosophic Systems (schools of thought)	Sociological Perspective on Sport
Philosophical Terms	Combining Sociology and Sport
USA - Colonial America	Modern Sport
USA - Antebellum	Sport and Culture
USA - 1850-1900	Sport and Social Organization
USA - 1900-1930
USA - 1950-Present
Branches
Reading List 1. Jan Broekhoff 2. Pierre de Coubertin & Modern Olympism 3. Warning: The pendulum has swung far enough 4. The influence of Plato and Platonism 5. Physical Education: An academic discipline 6. The modern Olympic games 7. Our legacy from the Middle Ages 8. The funeral Games of the Homeric Greeks 9. Education through the physical 10. The new physical education

Presentations

Grenfell, Christopher C. Value Constructs of Ultra Distance Runners paper presented at the annual meeting of the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport, Las Vegas Nevada, November, 1998.

Grenfell, Christopher C. and Robert Rinehart Skating on Thin Ice: Human Rights in Children’s Sport paper presented at the International Conference on Sport and Human Rights, Sydney, Australia, September 1999.

Grenfell, Christopher C. Populist Access to Corporate Identity: The ‘Zine Scene in Emerging Extreme Sports paper presented at the annual meeting of the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport, Colorado Springs Colorado, November, 2000

Rinehart, Robert and Christopher C. Grenfell BMX - Makin’ the Leap: Grass Roots and Corporatization of Children’s Spaces paper presented at the annual meeting of The Association for the Study of Play, San Diego, CA., February, 2001.

Grenfell, Christopher C. and Ben Cooper, Sport, Not A Sport: Revisiting the Criteria for Defining Sport, paper presented at the annual meeting of the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport, Indianapolis, Indiana, November, 2002.

Grenfell, Christopher C. and Robert Rinehart Fantasy Leagues, Talk Radio, and the “Dumbification” of America: Mindfulness in Sport “Participation”, paper accepted for presentation at the annual meeting of the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport Montreal, Canada, November, 2003

Publications

Rinehart, Robert and Christipher C. Grenfell, 2002 BMX Spaces: Children’s Grass Roots’ Courses and Corporate-Sponsored Tracks, Sociology of Sport Journal, 19 (3) 302-314.

Grenfell, Christopher C. and Robert Rinehart 2003 Skating On Tin Ice: Human Rights in Youth Figure Skating, International Review for the Sociology of Sport 38 (1) 79-97