cr006 Sociology of Sport

Faculty of Sports Studies
Autumn 2009
Extent and Intensity
0/4. 0 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
prof. PhDr. Aleš Sekot, CSc. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. PhDr. Aleš Sekot, CSc.
Department of Sport Pedagogy – Faculty of Sports Studies
Prerequisites
Finishing the subject Sociology
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
Sociology is very helpful when it comes to studing sports as a social phenomena. It provides concepts, theoretical approaches, and research methods to describe and unerstand behaviour and social interactions as they occur in particularg social and cultural contexts. Just qualitative changes in sports have updated new concepts as a physical recreation, professional sport, high performance sport, elite sport etc. becoming involved and staying in sports occurs in connection with general socialization process in lives of people. The phenomenon of sport has been strongly transformed during past two or three decades, mostly as a consequence of the process of commercionalization and medialization of elite professional sportts, mostly in global extend. Main objective of the lesson is to properly understand mutual relations of sport and society in local, regional and global context. At the end of the course student should be able to properly understend mutual relations society and sport and applicate such knowledge in professional activitiues on different levels of sport.
Syllabus
  • Theoretical terminus a quo of sociologyx of sport Sport and socialization Leisur sport versus performance top sports Sport subcultures Communal aspects of sport Sport and youth Youth versus doping in sport leisur and sport Contemporary Czech society and sport Sport and mass media Fascination with sport medialized sport Global aspects of sport Migration in sport Feminity versus masculinity Women and sport in historical perspective Sportive subcultures Sport - its perspectives
Teaching methods
Lectures based on recomended literature. Sekot, A: Sociologie sportu, 2006 Sekot, A. Aktuální problémy sociologie sportu, 2008
Assessment methods
Written text, prerequisity - semminary work
Language of instruction
Czech
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2007, Autumn 2008, Autumn 2010, Autumn 2011, Autumn 2018.
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