SOCIOLOGY OF SPORT: CONCEPTUAL AND TOPICAL ISSUES

Аннотация

This article is intended to encourage students and readers in general to think more critically about sports and its role in the contemporary society. Socialization impacts of sports as well as increasing process of organization, commercialization, and globalization of sports are emphasized. Sports are social constructions and particularly in a form presented in mass media are an integral part of modern way of life. It carries pleasure as well as sadness for millions of people. Sports are institutionalized competitive activities that involve rigorous physical exertion or the use of relatively complex physical skills by participant motivation, personal enjoyment and external rewards. Global aspects of contemporary sports are discussed from the point of view of their technological, economical, medial and ideological dimensions.