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Média, televize a takovýhle ty věci: několik poznámek k sociologické analýze vztahu sportovní korupce a médií.
No full textTento esejisticky laděný příspěvek se zaměřuje na roli masových médií při šíření a reprodukci korupce ve sportu. Poukazuje především na ambivalenci postavení masových médií. Shrnuje dosavadní akademickou reflexi fenoménu a za pomocí několika příkladů nedávných medializovaných případů korupce vysvětluje, jak se média, na straně jedné, podílejí na boji proti korupci ve sportu a jak k ní, na straně druhé, mohou zrovna tak přispívat. Příspěvek načrtává mikro-sociální a makro-sociální dimenze, v nichž může být vztah masových médií a sportovní korupce nadále promýšlen a systematicky analyzován
Sport as Resistance: "Ice Hockey Protests" in Czechoslovakia in 1969
No full textSocial scientists dealing with the relationship between sport and collective identity in totalitarian regimes usually tend to highlight the subordination of sport to the prevailing political order. In these conceptualizations, the national identity created and reproduced through sport is directly influenced by the leading ideology. Less attention has been paid to the potential subversive role that sport could have against the dominant political regime. At this point, sport does not function as a tool to confirm a political order but as a way to jeopardize it. In my contribution, I try to elaborate mainly this less developed standpoint in social scientific explanations by showing how sport stimulated a wider societal protest against the main political power, using the case of the Czechoslovak ice hockey team’s victories against the Soviet Union in the World Championship in March 1969. The victories, accompanied by the Czechoslovak players’ symbolic anti-Soviet gestures, resulted in massive celebrations in the streets of Prague that were transformed into a protest against Soviet occupation. That this happened shortly after the Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia starting in August 1968 is significant; this paper discusses the context of these events and their impact on Czechoslovak politics
The Media and Sports Corruption: An Outline of Sociological Understanding
No full textThis article focuses on the role of the media in the processes of diffusion, maintenance, and undermining of corruption in sports, particularly soccer. Drawing chiefly on various illustrative examples of several recent cases of corruption and the existing academic literature on the topic, the article demonstrates how the media function as both an enemy and a facilitator of corruption in sports. Both micro- and macrosocial analytical dimensions for potential future research on the relationship between the media and corruption are proposed and discussed
Promýšlení Weberova konceptu odkouzlení: Výzkum opětovného okouzlení jachtingem v post-komunistické České republice.
Get PDFThe significance of sport as a social practice remains hidden at the margins of sociology. This article aims to highlight the social significance of sport by providing a sociological interpretation of the transformations of sailing in Czechoslovakia, and later in the Czech Republic, following the Velvet Revolution of 1989. These sport-related changes are understood to be consequences of wider socio-cultural, economic and political transformations. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork of the Czech sailing movement, I argue that during Czechoslovakia’s communist period, a time when sailing was labelled pejoratively as a ‘bourgeois sport’, it actually experienced a ‘golden age’ of enchantment. Based on Weber’s concept of disenchantment and its subsequent developments in contemporary sociology, this article demonstrates how this earlier enchantment was jeopardized by disenchantment threats that occurred after 1989, and how sailing has once again been re-enchanted in the current period
Sports Governance in the Czech Republic. Policy Brief. A Country Overview
No full textMarie Curie Excellence Grant MEXT-25008 ‘Sport and Social Capital in the European Union
Czech Sport Governing Bodies and Social Capital
No full textThe main objective of the study is to explore the mechanisms influencing the nature of civic engagement in sport federations with a particular interest in barriers undermining their functioning. The article is based on the multi-sited ethnographic study in three sport governing bodies in the Czech Republic (handball, football and sailing) and uses a combination of techniques such as participant and non-participant observation, semi-structured interviews and secondary analysis of available documents. The main barriers identified are seen as a product of encounters between local and national levels of sport governing bodies. The concept of social capital with its structural, relational and cognitive dimensions is presented as a tool to grasp the phenomena under study
Barriers of Sport Governance: ‘Local’ vs. ‘National’
No full textLocal sport governing bodies represent an extremely important base for the functioning of organised sport activities at a national level. The nature of associational life of sport governing bodies therefore strongly depends on interaction and communication of different levels of governance. Using the concept of social capital, the paper is focused on the following question: What are the barriers undermining associational life of the Czech sport governing bodies? This question was addressed using as an object of study three different sport governing bodies in the Czech Republic organised in federations: handball, football and sailing. The study is based on the methodology of multi-sited ethnography and it uses a combination of techniques, such as participant observation, semi-structured interviews and secondary analysis of available documents
Institutionalisation of the Regional Public Policies on Sport in the Czech Republic
No full textThis paper deals with the emerging processes of creation and implementation of regional public policies on sport in the Czech Republic since 2001. It analyses the dynamics between the sport voluntary sector and the public administration. The paper captures the major tenets of the regional public policy for sport and explores the barriers undermining its effective functioning. It is argued that the Czech regional public sport policies are limited by two types of constraints; structural and cognitive. Whereas the structural constraints are defined in terms of politicisation, bureaucratisation, lack of evidence in the policy-making process and lack of interaction, the cognitive constraints are related to the lack of knowledge, the lack of information, the low recognition of sport in the context of other policy issues and the negative public image of public administration. Furthermore, a typology of different styles of support for sport and a typology of different strategies employed by sport associations and clubs to obtain funding are identified. The paper, thus, presents five ideal-types of the regional public support of sport: progressive, bureaucratic, political-clientelist, delegated, and marginalised. Moreover, four different strategies adopted by the sport movement are defined: the adaptation strategy; the pragmatic strategy; the strategy of the marginalised; and the strategy of resignation. The study is based on a qualitative methodology, using a combination of techniques such as semi-structured interviews with public administration officers and representatives of the Czech sport movement, secondary analysis of documents and observations
Sports journalists and corruption: between unintended and willful blindness
No full textJournalists are significant interpreters of the world of sport. This means that they do not only transmit passion, spontaneity and pleasure of contemporary sports, but can also challenge the traditional principles of fair play by enhancing corruption. The recent increase of corruption in contemporary sports has been partially attributed to the symbiotic relationship between the realm of sport, the mass media, business and advertisement industry. Although the entire mass media and all journalists do not necessarily play the role of devils orchestrating corruption scandals, their involvement and possible contribution to corruption cannot be underestimated or sidelined. This short essay will therefore focus on the role of journalists as actors who are potentially involved in the chain of corruption. For the sake of correctness, at the opposite pole, investigative journalism sometimes contribute to fight against corruption. However, this topic is not covered by this article. The following paragraphs will illuminate how journalists deliberately or unintentionally contribute to the diffusion of corruption. The objective of this article is to present different forms or sports journalists’ encroachment with corruption, with no ambition to quantify the occurrence of these types or to specify which of these types tend to prevail
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