Kim presents at NASSS

Young Ho Kim, a doctoral student in the School of Kinesiology, gave a presentation at the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport (NASSS) held in Portland, OR, from November 5 to 8. Co-authored with associate professor Dr. Lisa Kihl, the title of the presentation was “South Korean Professional Athletes’ Social Construction of Match Fixing.” The paper critiqued current cultural understandings of the causes of match fixing and argued that in order to further our insights into of why South Korean elite athletes engage in match fixing is by using a theoretical framework that includes social constructivism and understanding social norms.