Theory of Sports: Two Granes Developments

Abstract

The Purpose of the Study: Is to uncover modern ideas about the two facets of the theory of sports.Methods of Research: consist in the analysis of special literature, which reveals various aspects of the construction of the theory of sports and the theory of physical culture.Results of the Analysis: It has been shown that modern sport is a global socio-cultural phenomenon which in its scale has a transnational character. A consensus definition of "sport" is formulated. It is stated that the results of people's activity associated with the use of physical exercises in the process of preparation for and participation in competitions have a dual nature as a person is at the same time the subject and object of the cultural-historical process. A marked feature of the results of the specified activity of people and determines the essence of existence in the theory of sport of two interrelated faces -sociocultural and procedural. It is shown that objective knowledge of the laws of development of sport is possible only within the framework of the theory of physical culture, the main purpose of which is to establish the laws of development of the basic forms of its social manifestation, including sports.