Open AccessTowards the Genesis of Sport: the Functions of sport in Modern Society
Author(s) -
D.A. Ogorodov
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
èkonomičeskie i socialʹno-gumanitarnye issledovaniâ
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2409-1073
DOI - 10.24151/2409-1073-2021-2-136-143
Subject(s) - democratization , normalization (sociology) , entertainment , institution , sociology , modern life , aesthetics , epistemology , environmental ethics , social science , political science , democracy , art , law , philosophy , modernity , politics
The article examines the ideas about sports practices in different historical epochs, provides a brief analysis of the forms of physical activity that predate the modern concept of sports. The author suggests that in modern society, sport has acquired a new status of a socio-cultural institution that performs certain specific functions aimed at maintaining the existing socio-cultural structure, such as maintaining and reproducing human corporeality as an axiological, ethical and aesthetic unit; normalization and demilitarization of social life; entertainment and leisure and democratization.