Sociological Study on Process of Institutionalization in Japanese Sports

Research Project

Project/Area Number	02808021
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for General Scientific Research (C)
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Research Field	体育学
Research Institution	KYUSHU UNIVERSITY
Principal Investigator	TATANO Hideo Institute of Health Science, Asso.Prof., 健康科学センター, 助教授 (00038499)
Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha)	YAMAMOTO Norihito Insitute of Health Science, Lecturer., 健康科学センター, 講師 (50230579) KANEZAKI Ryozo Institute of Health Science, Professor., 健康科学センター, 教授 (70038496)
Project Period (FY)	1990 – 1992
Project Status	Completed (Fiscal Year 1992)
Budget Amount *help	¥1,500,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,500,000) Fiscal Year 1992: ¥200,000 (Direct Cost: ¥200,000) Fiscal Year 1991: ¥400,000 (Direct Cost: ¥400,000) Fiscal Year 1990: ¥900,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000)
Keywords	Institutionalization / Sociology / Culture / Sport / Sumo / Judo / Kendo / Tradition / 制度 / 技術 / 規範 / 組織 / スポ-ツ / 現代化 / ル-ル / 日本的スポ-ツ
Research Abstract	The purpose of this study was to investigate the formational and institutional process of the so-called Japanese sports in order to clarify the characteristics of sports in Japan. Main contents of examination were as follows: 1. From the point of sociological theory such as Bourdieu, P. and Giddens, A., we constructed a new model of sports, and clarify the basic elements and their interrelations to study the process of institutionalization in sports. In addition, we reexamined that process from a view of Invention of Tradition pointed by Hobsbaum. 2. The process of institutionalization in the Japanese sports such as Sumo, Judo and Kendo were analyzed. As a result, the elements of competition, education and class in sports had great impaction that process. And, their Japanese and spiritual traditions were invented in Meiji era and through early Showa era. In these meanings, their characteristics of the Japanese sports were thought as the products of modernization process in Japan. 3. There were important differences in the process of institutionalization between Japanese sports and European sports.