Sociological Analysis of the Institutional Status of Contemporary Sport

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10.2991/aebmr.k.200114.197How to use a DOI?

Keywords

sport, students, political status of sport, commercialization of sport, migrant athletes, illegal gambling

Abstract

The phenomenon of sport, which is currently determined as a specialized field of the social activity, is associated with the identification and demonstration of people’s physical abilities.The sociological analysis of sport nowadays becomes an urgent issue of growing practical and theoretical significance. Sport begins to emerge as a social institute in the system of physical culture of society. Thus, the study of the youths’ attitude to sport allows to define the overt and latent processes, that uncover the problem area of current sport. At the present moment the recruitment of migration in sport, gambling, political blackmail in the field of sport are involved extensively. The heroic spirit of sport is becoming a thing of the past, although nostalgia for this social phenomenon still persists. This is especially emerging among young people, who, supposedly, are expected to be most actively integrated into this social institution. The sociological study conducted in 2015 by the Perm National Research Polytechnic University revealed a spectrum of the political and economic contradictions of sports and their social status in contemporary society. Students point out the pronounced tendencies of the commercialization and politicization of sport in Russia, its marketability and commercial value. Although nostalgia for the Soviet model of sport and its social role is remained by them.

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AU  - L.N. Kurbatova
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/01/18
TI  - Sociological Analysis of the Institutional Status of Contemporary Sport
BT  - Proceedings of the First International Volga Region Conference on Economics, Humanities and Sports (FICEHS 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
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