The Meaning of Amateurism

• John J. Sewart ^[1]
  1. [1] University of Santa Clara
• Localización: Sociology of sport journal, ISSN 0741-1235, Vol. 2, Nº. 1, 1985, págs. 77-86
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • This paper defends the amateur ideal of athletics. It suggests that the hypocrisy which surrounds the amateur ideal is not due to a fault in the ideal itself, but is rather a symptom of commercial pressures upon sport. The defense of the amateur ideal does not necessarily involve a return to aristocratic privileges. The amateurist vision of “pure sport’ ’ provides a worthy ideal embodying the true meaning of sport as an end in itself. The paper shows the fate of amateurism in a market society to be one of betrayal of the utopian and emancipatory potential of sport.