Sport in Society, Sociology and Journals: Missing Perspectives and Cultural Idiosyncrasies in an International Social Institution

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Abstract

The multi-levelled division of this topic brings out the fact that sport appears in different guises on these different levels. Sociology presents an important but one-sided perspective of sport as a national and international social institution. This is highlighted by recent developments in the Olympics. The author, former editor of the International Review for the Sociology of Sport, submits that sport in journals is hiding behind words which inform us irrefutably about the style and the cultural background of the authors, and somewhat more refutably and one-sidedly about sport. Sport actually concerns the culture of body and mind. overlooked by today's mainstream sociology.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)19-31
Number of pages13
JournalInternational Review for the Sociology of Sport
Volume25
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - Mar 1990

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