Kinesiology, Vol. 30 No. 1, 1998.
Original scientific paper
Transparency of the function of sport offered to spectators and tv viewers and to those active in sports recreation (The case of Slovenia)
Jaka Bednarik
; Faculty of Sport, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Krešimir Petrovič
; Faculty of Sport, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Abstract
The most important function of sport is the one which also includes usefulness in the most general sense of the word, physical, mental, social and certainly material usefulness. The crisis of the "state welfare" is evident in the East as well as in the West. The problem of growing social differences which are more evident in the East, reflects also in sport, among other things by distorting its utilitarian functions. Regarding the results we can conclude that, in Slovenia, sport acts in the function of wholesome utility. It has active and passive participants (spectators at sport events). Evidently Slovenes enjoy sport, they are aware of its positive effects on health. Sport is a way of life and top-level sport achievements are appreciated as they show what Slovenes know and can attain in this field. In post-socialist Slovenia there is no distinct crisis in the function of sport, that is to say no marked distortions of sport values.
Keywords
function of sport, East and West Europe
Hrčak ID:
256556
URI
Publication date:
26.4.1998.
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