(Department of Physical Education,Guangdong University of Foreign Studies,Guangzhou 510006,China) Abstract: The author expatiated on the development of researches on sports consumption from the perspective of social stratification, and pointed out the followings: researches on sports consumption from the perspective of social stratification take a small percentage in researches on sports consumption, and have such problems as similar re-search structures and rough research methods; researches henceforward should focus more on the study of the rela-tionship between diversified classes and consumption, the study of the middle class’s sports consumption, and the study that combines the perspective of social stratification with the perspective of social mobility, and strengthen the assurance of research quality in terms of method. Key words: sports sociology;social stratification;sports consumption;identity characteristic;review |