Sport is a wide range of leisure activities that involve physical exercise and competitive performance. Generally speaking, it includes athletics, team sports, and other non-athletic forms of activity that are judged to be “sports.”
The emergence and evolution of modern sports have been closely tied to globalization in the 19th and 20th centuries. This process has included the creation of national and international sports organizations, the standardization and worldwide acceptance of the rules and regulations for individual and team sports, and the development of regularly scheduled international competitions.
Cultural and Social Relations:
The sociological study of sports has largely focused on how participants develop their identity through participation in sport. A large body of research has shown that sports participation involves a great deal of commitment to the group and a sense of obligation toward other members in the group.
Emotion:
The experience of playing sports is often marked by feelings such as excitement, fear, frustration, and joy. These emotions can be expressed before, during, and after an athletic event. Some of these feelings are triggered by an athlete’s expectation or self-evaluation of their performance and their perception of the expectations of others.
This emotional aspect of sports is important in attracting and keeping fans to watch sporting events. It enables the spectators to feel passionate identification with their representative team, or with the opposing team, and it produces a sense of ecstasy, despair, and even hatred when one team wins. Moreover, the emotion that athletes and spectators feel at sporting events has been found to be a major factor in shaping social interactions within a sports culture.