J 2009

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

NUMERATO, Dino

Basic information

Original name

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

Authors

NUMERATO, Dino

Edition

Sociology, 2009, 0038-0385

Other information

Type of outcome

Článek v odborném periodiku

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

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Impact factor

Impact factor: 1.455

Organization unit

Faculty of Social Studies

UT WoS

000266937600002

Keywords in English

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

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International impact, Reviewed
Změněno: 17/6/2009 09:33, doc. PhDr. Dino Numerato, Ph.D.

Abstract

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.