An Urban Sports Movement as a Social Actor and a Political Arena

Remarks on Post War Associations Research in Rome

Bibliographic Data

ID2379366
AuthorsNicolà Porro (Faculty of Sociology, University of Rome "La Sapienza", Via Salaria 113, 00198 Rome, Italy, corresponding author)
Year1995
Volume30
Issue2
Pages141-163
Publication date1995-06-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueInternational Review for the Sociology of Sport (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1012-6902 • E-ISSN: 1461-7218
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/101269029503000202
OpenAlexW2032209676
LanguageEN
References cited24

This paper proposes a theoretical framework for research on three meaningful sports experiences (track and field, volleyball and military sport) in post war Rome. The main key concepts, such as the one of political arena, considered as a historically defined place of conflict among the elites, are borrowed from political sociology. This approach, inspired by the neo-institutionalistic viewpoint, is considered to be the opposite to both an improperly extended use of the historians' categories, and the suggestions of micro-organizational theories. A sports association is described rather as the product of manifold organizational logics, which concur in defining its structural, organizational and cognitive outline. In the final section, a hypothesis is provided, which describes a division of the organizational history of the Roman sports movement in different periods, in connection with the national and local political cycle

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