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Sports and Culture: Exploration for the Thought of Diversity and Historical Approach

  • CHANG, Deok Seon (Clean Baseball Center, Office of the Commissioner, KBO (Korea Baseball Organization)) ;
  • KIM, Hae Yu (Department of Sport Convergence, Eulji University) ;
  • LEE, Hyuk Jin (Faculty of Liberal Arts, Eulji University)
  • Received : 2020.12.09
  • Accepted : 2020.12.14
  • Published : 2020.12.31

Abstract

Purpose: This study started with interest in sport culture and is meaningful as an exploratory study to help with the basic understanding of sport culture research. Research design, data, and methodology: The approach of this study is the exploratory approach by literature reviews. This study carried out exploratory research on thinking about diversity of sports culture and the development process of sports culture by human history periods. Results: First, in thinking about cultural diversity, cultural absolutism and cultural relativism were identified. The characteristics of sports culture can identify universality, individuality and diffusion, and the attributes of sports culture included sharing, learning, accumulation, whole systematic relationship and change. Second, the characteristics of sports culture were identified by the approach of each historical era. The historical stages were divided into ancient civilizations, ancient Greece and Rome, middle ages and early modern period, and late modern period. Sports have historically been found to have a British-centered European origin or popularized in the United States. Conclusions: with the characteristics of modern sports culture, the globalization of sports culture, the prominence of sports industry and sports space marketing, and the symbiotic influence relationship of sports and mass media were examined and future directions were discussed.

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