Sport
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7079080 |
|---|---|
| Authors | John W Loy, Jay Coakley |
| Year | 2007 |
| Publication date | 2007-02-15 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | OTHER |
| Venue | The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/9781405165518.wbeoss221 |
| OpenAlex | W4233398671 |
| ISBN | 9781405165518 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 15 |
Sport is an embodied, structured, goal‐oriented, competitive, contest‐based, ludic, physical activity. Given the multitude of sport forms and the vast variety of specific sports, ranging from rural, primitive athletic folk games of old, to new urban, hi tech, extreme sports, this definition is unlikely to satisfy one‐and‐all. It does, however, (1) highlight the major social characteristics of modern sport; (2) suggest the specification of the embodied structural properties and social processes underlying the social development of modern sport; and (3) provide a set of common features for examining the magnitude and complexity of sport as a social phenomenon at different levels of analysis, including sport as a unique game occurrence, sport as a particular type of ludic activity, sport as an institutionalized game, sport as a social institution, and sport as a form of social involvement (Loy 1968
CONTEST · Embodied cognition · Epistemology · Institution · Multitude · Phenomenon · Political science · Set (abstract data type · Social science · Sociology · Variety (cybernetics · Adventure Sports and Sensation Seeking · Computer Science · Psychology · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts · Sports, Gender, and Society
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,38 |
| Citation span | 2013 - 2021 (9) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |