The academic study of sport-sociology has been initiated very recently. It is a science which deals with various affairs related to physical education from the viewpoint of sociology, thus attempting to rationalize physical education in general.
The ...
The academic study of sport-sociology has been initiated very recently. It is a science which deals with various affairs related to physical education from the viewpoint of sociology, thus attempting to rationalize physical education in general.
The purpose of the present paper is to examine social possibilities of sports in the future and investigate sometrue values involving in the study of sports as an index which represents social features. Sports are defined as comp-etitive activities in the interaction with other individuals. Competitive and based on physical skills, in particular, sports are being actually institutionalized and organized as a social integration, with a worldwide character in-almost every society.
Sport-sociology is defined as a sociological study of those matters concerning physical education and social problems. Sports constitute one of important cultural aspects that should be rightly dealt with in education, having influence on other areas in the rapidly changing modern society.
Some important aspects of sport-sociology are found in the five areas presented below:
(1)A great number of publications have devoted to sports.
(2)Sports have been widely discussed in sociology.
(3)In the field of social psychology, the problems related to sportg have been treated as an important part.
(4)Sport-sociology constitutes one of the area covered by cultural anthropology.
(5)Philosophy played an important role in providing sport-sociology with conceptual background.