Notes on the Inter-Group Conflicts in International Sport

Heinilä, Kalevi

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“…Yet, as the Covid-19 pandemic alone has demonstrated, there is an essential need to look beyond the biological and the psychological, and to examine the sociological dimensions of any research issue. 8 At the same time, a critical task for sociologists within sport and other fields is to adapt and to reposition the discipline, in the ways that we have outlined, to secure its necessary centrality within the academy and beyond.…”

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“…In the 1960s and 1970s, both the increasing sportification of society and the emerging scientification of sport, led to a growing international interest in research on sport as an important part of modern society. Numerous sociological studies, for example from Elias and Dunning (5), Edwards (6,7), Heinilä (8), Kenyon & Loy (9), Klein & Christiansen (10), Lüschen (11,12), McIntosh (13), and Rigauer (14), just to name a few, marked the beginning of the "take-off" of sport sociology at universities, particularly in Europe and North America, where higher education, especially in the social sciences, was experiencing significant expansion. It was no coincidence to observe during this period an accumulation of international publications on the sociology of sport from a variety of academics.…”

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New horizons in the sociology of sport

Giulianotti

Thiel

2023

Front. Sports Act. Living

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The relevance of a sociological view on the problems of society has never been as important as it is today. To quote the editors of the journal Nature in their editorial, Time for the Social Sciences, from 2015: if you want science to deliver for society, you need to support a capacity to understand that society. In other words, the technological and scientific disciplines cannot simply transfer their findings into everyday life without knowing how society works. But this realisation does not seem to have caught on everywhere. The sociology of sport is entering a critical period that will shape its development and potential transformation over the next decade. In this paper, we review key features and trends within the sociology of sport in recent times, and set out potential future challenges and ways forward for the subdiscipline. Accordingly, our discussion spans a wide range of issues concerning the sociology of sport, including theories and approaches, methods, and substantive research topics. We also discuss the potential contributions of the sociology of sport to addressing key societal challenges. To examine these issues, the paper is organized into three main parts. First, we identify three main concentric challenges, or types of peripheral status, that sociologists of sport must confront: as social scientists, as sociologists, and as sociologists of sport, respectively. Second, we consider various strengths within the positions of sociology and the sociology of sport. Third, in some detail, we set out several ways forward for the sociology of sport with respect to positioning within academe, scaling up research, embracing the glocal and cosmopolitan aspects of sociology, enhancing plurality in theory, improving transnational coordination, promoting horizontal collaborations, and building greater public engagement. The paper is underpinned by over 60 years (combined) of work within the sociology of sport, including extensive international research and teaching.

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New horizons in the sociology of sport

Giulianotti

Thiel

2023

Front. Sports Act. Living

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“…(5) "... one of the fundamental functions of international sport is to promote international understanding and good-will and [is considered to be]... one of the most influential movements for peace." (13) "In modern society, people belong to innumerable groupings [example, sport]... these groupings cooperate with each other in a manner that is precise, regulated and highly "civilized" [from active to passive]. (4) "... hardly any sphere of human endeavour with the exception of technology and communication, has brought continents and countries of the world so close together irrespective of distance, culture and language, as SPORT has done.…”

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Global understanding, appreciation and peace through sports tourism

Kurtzman¹,

Zauhar²,

Jong-yun³

et al. 1993

Journal of Sport & Tourism

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“…The USOC spends 53% of its budget on administrative matters (PCOS, 1977: 422). The number of full-time personnel involved in the administration of intercollegiate athletics increased 35.9% between 1966-1972(PCOS, 1977. The number of part-time personnel in the form of fund raisers, public relations directors, and information or media liaisons increased 53% while player participation increased only 8%.…”

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The Organization of American Amateur Sport

Frey

1978

American Behavioral Scientist

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The pervasive theme of the recently released report of the President's Commission on Olympic Sports (PCOS, 1977) is that American amateur athletics are in a state of entropy by not being able to garner sufficient organizational and financial energy to maintain effective operations. However, the report's call for unified control of amateur sport in the form of a Central Sports Organization (CSO) is an oversimplified solution which does not take into full account the actual organizational reality of amateur sport. Poor organization and underfunding are only symptoms of larger problems, namely, overorganization and the demise of local-national control of amateur athletics.American amateur sport has evolved to form an expansive interlocking network of organizations and associations which depend on athletics for their livelihood or survival. As a result, an excessive portion of a declining athletic resource base goes to maintaining the network even if it means a compromise of the original participatory goals. This network forms the &dquo;amateur sport establishment.&dquo; Second, the network has developed interlocking ties with international sport governing bodies to the extent that local control of amateur athletics is considerably re-5, 2016 at Kungl Tekniska Hogskolan / Royal Institute of Technology on June abs.sagepub.com Downloaded from

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Notes on the Inter-Group Conflicts in International Sport

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