A heterogeneous set of meanings, interests, passions, activities, rituals that manifest themselves at both the micro and macro levels revolve around sport. The contributions of the first issue of this magazine are placed within this broad cognitive framework with the aim of thinking about the plurality of social, cultural and economic processes that link sport to the social sciences. As we shall see, these are very varied study perspectives but which, taken together, have allowed for fruitful interdisciplinary discussions and comparisons.