Sport, Conflict and Conflict Resolution
In: International social science journal: ISSJ, Band 34, Heft 2, S. 185-196
ISSN: 0020-8701
A factual account provides no clear pattern concerning conflict resolution & instigation through sport. Both positions prevail in the social-psychological literature on sport & aggression, while anthropological testing of preliterate societies shows combative sport to be related to warlikeness. Model & conceptual implications are discussed. A stronger concern for sociological analysis will provide a better understanding of the sport contest in its dialectical structure & its sociocultural as well as organizational context. Simple notions of causality & insights from ethology & psychology are insufficient for the analysis of a predominately structural problem of conflict in the sport contest. 1 Table, 2 Photographs, 1 Illustration. AA.