[Extra] Sport Sociology theory

◆ Concepts and Definitions

   Sport may be a small social phenomenon one when viewed in nature with its contents. Because sports is because defeat rules, norms, and victory and basic components teams, players, and coaches, such as fair play, and a variety of factors. These elements are present, the thumbnail view of the social phenomenon often sports.

   In other words, it is intended to analyze the social phenomena Sociology (sociology. Sociology), and being able to analyze the sport as a sociological various concepts, to understand. Was born here, sport sociology - it is possible to (sociology, sport sociology), and to study in connection with the characteristics of the sport research and analysis of social phenomena in the center of attention of sociology sport sociology It may be that it is science. Sociology of these sports may be relatively new science. Began to be referred to as a branch sport sociology, sports science "sports sociology, the context of the sport through the paper (JW Loy) that Toward a Sociology of Sport first knurled Canyon 1965 Jonroi and (GS Kenyon) It is from then defined in, and academic "to elucidate the laws of social behavior of human beings.

◆ History and development stage

   Sociological study of the phenomenon and the associated sports in the mid-1800s, was started a cultural anthropologist, historian, physical education scholars, psychologists, sociologists and the like. As research on a technical level (descriptive), the study of this period, can not be a sport sociology in the strict sense primarily, as a sociological study play of the era, games, sports related, sport sociology and provides important clues that can find the origin of. 

   Sociological study of sport phenomenon of the early days, it is an object in the game and play primarily. As functional studies the essence of the play, early studies on the play was performed by psychoanalysis and scholars psychologist mainly.
   On the other hand, game play and has been the subject of academic interest much while generally by the cultural anthropologist and psychologist, but the sport itself did not receive little attention, but part of the region of interest finally Become a 1900s I was positioned as.
   You can hit because it discarded in Europe, in the paper and Sport und Kultur, criticized the sport, Lise of Germany published a book called Soziologie des Sport in sport sociology book for the first time in 1921 to 1910, but of this book the term "sports sociology" was first used in the middle.
   However, sports, or have received attention as a sociological phenomenon in Germany in the 1920s, up to the mid-1960s, could not be enjoying the development of true. As described above, the interest of the academic by social scientists earlier, the definition of the concept and function of the game and play, research related group dynamics experiment of individual between in sport small groups, such as (social psychology) is the main it was something.