The footballisation of the polish sociology of sport

Jakub Ryszard Stempień

doi:10.18778/0208-600X.75.01

Authors

Jakub Ryszard Stempień Department of Rural and Urban Sociology, Institute of Sociology, Faculty of Economics and Sociology, University of Łódź, ul. Rewolucji 1905 r. 41/43, 90-214 Łódź https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9526-4823

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18778/0208-600X.75.01

Keywords:

footballisation, sociology of sport, football, sports

Abstract

The article addresses the issue of the unique position of football among sports, which supports Bromberger’s thesis on the footballisation of society. As an overview of publications shows, football has occupied a special place in the international sociology of sport over the last 30 years; studies of football have been among the twenty most popular topics within the sub-discipline. However, it would be unjustified to speak of the footballisation of the international sociology of sport, understood as the overrepresentation of football in this sub-discipline. The situation is different when it comes to the Polish sociology of sport, where up to 50% of publications in the first fifteen years of the 21st century tackled various football-related issues. In conclusion, theses concerning possible consequences of the footballisation of the Polish sociology of sport are presented, including the type I and type II errors.

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