Understanding contemporary society requires recognition of the role of sport. Sport is an important international phenomena associated with both societal problems as well as solutions. Positive effects of sport could be enhanced and negative effects significantly reduced by 'proper' sport education. Thus, improved understanding of the relation between sport, sport education and society seem to be essential for further development of the cross - disciplinary research between these fields. In this manner a topic taxonomy and topic interface matrix sustaining diversity and progress of individual research topics were established using bibliometric analysis and visualisation. Corpus was retrieved from the Scopus database using the search string 'sport AND education AND society' in the title, abstract and keywords. The search resulted in 1138 information sources, among them 917 with complete abstracts. First information sources were published in 1968 and the production was steady till 1994. After that period, the growth become linear and in 2002 exponential, with a plateau in the period 2005 - 2009.The descriptive bibliometric analysis showed that the most productive countries were United States of America, china, United Kingdom, Japan and Canada. The information sources were published in top ranked journals. From the bibliographical mapping and use of meta - synthesis four main and most productive topics emerged: health issues, training & competition, physical activity and education & research forming the basis of the derived taxonomy. A couple of interesting and not quite expected relations between topics become evident from the interface matrix. Taxonomy and topic interface matrix together with term maps present a framework which might be helpful to new researchers in the field trying to get involved in the research as well to those already engaged to foster and guide their future research activities. Additionally the framework gives insights into the current state of sport education and society research and might lead to new ideas to enhance its further development.