NUMERATO, Dino. Revisiting Weber's Concept of Disenchantment: An Examination of the Re-enchantment with Sailing in the Post-Communist Czech Republic. Sociology. vol. 43, No 3, p. 439-456. ISSN 0038-0385. 2009.
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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.
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Type of outcome Article in a journal
Confidentiality degree is not subject to a state or trade secret
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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
Tags Czech Republic, disenchantment, enchantment, Political Transformation, re-enchantment, sailing, sporting culture
Tags International impact, Reviewed
Changed by Changed by: doc. PhDr. Dino Numerato, Ph.D., učo 12387. Changed: 17/6/2009 09:33.
Abstract
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.
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