J 2009

Revisiting Weber's Concept of Disenchantment: An Examination of the Re-enchantment with Sailing in the Post-Communist Czech Republic

NUMERATO, Dino

Základní údaje

Originální název

Revisiting Weber's Concept of Disenchantment: An Examination of the Re-enchantment with Sailing in the Post-Communist Czech Republic

Autoři

NUMERATO, Dino

Vydání

Sociology, 2009, 0038-0385

Další údaje

Typ výsledku

Článek v odborném periodiku

Utajení

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Odkazy

Impakt faktor

Impact factor: 1.455

Organizační jednotka

Fakulta sociálních studií

UT WoS

000266937600002

Klíčová slova anglicky

Czech Republic; disenchantment; enchantment; political transformation; re-enchantment; sailing; sporting culture

Štítky

Příznaky

Mezinárodní význam, Recenzováno
Změněno: 17. 6. 2009 09:33, doc. PhDr. Dino Numerato, Ph.D.

Anotace

V originále

The significance of sport as a social practice remains hidden at the margins of sociology. This article aims to highlight the social significance of sport by providing a sociological interpretation of the transformations of sailing in Czechoslovakia, and later in the Czech Republic, following the Velvet Revolution of 1989. These sport-related changes are understood to be consequences of wider socio-cultural, economic and political transformations. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork of the Czech sailing movement, I argue that during Czechoslovakia's communist period, a time when sailing was labelled pejoratively as a `bourgeois sport', it actually experienced a `golden age' of enchantment. Based on Weber's concept of disenchantment and its subsequent developments in contemporary sociology, this article demonstrates how this earlier enchantment was jeopardized by disenchantment threats that occurred after 1989, and how sailing has once again been re-enchanted in the current period.