Social Risk and the Meaning of Sport

• Autores: James H. Frey
• Localización: Sociology of sport journal, ISSN 0741-1235, Vol. 8, Nº. 2, 1991, págs. 136-145
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The topic of risk is most often discussed in the literature on environmental, health, and technical hazards. More recently, however, it has become a topic of concern to social scientists who apply risk analysis to social relations and social structure. The concept of risk can be used in analyses of sport as a factor in analytical models and as a component of applied sport sociology. This essay considers definitions of risk, the sociological tradition in risk analysis, and the application of risk to sport studies.