This book studies the current development of the sociology of sports organisations in France.

In the face of the changes that are currently affecting the field of physical and sports activities, the notions of social responsibility, solidarity and affinity must be rethought through the filter of new issues: integration through sport, governance, sport-health, conquering new audiences…

The analysis and construction of sport's and education’s actors’ socially responsible action, implies the study of the social uses of sport and thus the deconstruction of commonplaces and presuppositions related to its intrinsic educational and humanistic virtues.

The question of risk in sports concentrates to her only many subjects of debate or even of controversy. Continuously faced with over time changing legislation and case law, the positions of the relevant actors best suit to their individual interests