Students about politics and national identification in sports

Bazić, Jovan; Stanković, Veroljub; Pavlović, Petar

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“…However, some authors like Graham Scambler ascribe great significance to: feminist theories which deal with gender in society, where there is a clear indication of the subjugation of women in sport; as well as figurational sociology, which deals with questions of mutual dependence among people and the role of social coercion in the increase of public control in society, and thus in sport. 3 Furthermore, even our eminent sport sociologist, professor Koković, points to an even broader spectrum of theoretical approaches to studying sport, such as: the social-historical, analytical, structuralist, phenomenological and interactionist approach. 4 All these theoretical paradigms are relevant for the analysis of various aspects of the relations between sport and society, but, at the same time, they are subject to criticism which abounds in sociological literature.…”

Section: Theoretical Paradigms Of Contemporary Views On the Relationsmentioning

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“…The holistic approach, which consists of functionalism, helped sociologists to consider sport as a social institution and "to deal with sport as a reflection of the overall society and its complex relations with other institutions in more detail". 5 That is why, according to Scambler, "several analysts appropriated Durkheim's perspective that sport can best be understood 3 Grejam Skembler. Sport i društvo: istorija, moć i kultura (Beograd: Clio, 2007), 247-256.…”

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The social aspects of sport

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Fizičko vaspitanje i sport kroz vekove

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SummaryIn this paper we evaluated the basic viewpoints on the mutual relations between contemporary sport and society. Sport is a global social phenomenon which is determined by a variety of different processes, including: the fast development of the industrial society and capital, an increase in leisure time, the development of a liberal democracy and the media. A special feature in these relations is the overall globalization process in today’s world. The basic structure of this paper is made up of two functional parts. In the first part we indicate the dominant theoretical-methodological paradigms in studying sport in social sciences, especially sociology: functionalism, conflict theory in society, interpretive and postmodern theory. In the second part of the paper we analyze the dialectics of contemporary relations between sport and society, where special attention is dedicated to the distribution of social power between sport, capital and the media at the local and global level. At the local level especially, there is a pronounced influence of politics on sport, which is realized through various mechanisms of government power, as well as other political subjects. The most solid bonds between sport and society on both levels are maintained by capital and the media, which know no boundaries. Through ownership and mechanisms of financing sports clubs and associations, athletes and athletic events, an entire network of capitalist relations in sport was created. Sport has become one of the most important factors of television programs, the internet and social networks, which has led to an enormous growth in profit and popularity of sport, but also to great changes in the social relations between people.

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Section: Theoretical Paradigms Of Contemporary Views On the Relationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Theoretical Paradigms Of Contemporary Views On the Relationsmentioning

confidence: 99%