Sociology of sport

The sociology of sport is a special sociology. Your questions lie at the intersection of sport, sport science and sociology. She is - closely based on White (1999, p.23) - the science concerned with the study of social action (eg of social structures or processes) in the sport as well as the social interactions in which sport is relevant concerned. She is an oriented theory strictly empirical foregoing discipline.

Review

The sociology of sport is most common in North America. Since the 1980s, it is regarded as a subdiscipline of sports science and sociology in Austria since the 1970s in Germany. The International Sociology of Sport Association ( ISSA) was founded in 1967. From the 1960s to be " sports sociology " as a synonym for " Sociology of Sports". The first introductory book on sociology of sport already wrote in 1921 Heinz Risse.

Social background

"Sport" has always had a social background. It begins with military exercises, which are intended to serve as a general object of the ( male ) citizen of the defense of the commonwealth; therefore this sport contributes heavily fortified sporting trains and has in the ancient city-states ( as in the Greek "polis " ) is always religious anchorages, such as the emergence, for example, the Olympic Games shows (see Norbert Elias ). As a courtly pastime ( desport ), then as part of the boarding school ( as in England), he was more regelgebändigt and also developed their own forms of decorum (see that's not sports ). With the advent of the nation state, he became a means of propaganda, with the mass media a part of show business and a form of consumption.

Field of application

Due to the sociology of sport can be explained to what extent reflect trends and ways of looking at in a society in sports, for example. After all, sport is not for himself alone, but is always embedded in a socio- cultural framework and a communication context. Especially in the age of mass media, many professional athletes define about their sports, built for performance success, and at the same time on the associated advertising contracts.