Historical Sociology of School Sports Federations: An Examination about the Influence on Overheating of Extracurricular Sports Activities

2023 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 19K11533
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Review Section: Basic Section 59020:Sports sciences-related
• Research Institution: Waseda University
• Principal Investigator: Nakazawa Atsushi 早稲田大学, スポーツ科学学術院, 教授 (70547520)
• Project Period (FY): 2019-04-01 – 2024-03-31
• Keywords: 運動部活動 / 学校体育連盟 / 競技大会 / 過熱化 / 歴史 / 社会学

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Why are “extracurricular sports activities” so popular in Japan? Japan's sports culture has been supported by school clubs, not by community clubs. Until now, the principal investigator has analyzed the history and current status of such extracurricular sports activities and examined the Japan-specific relationship between sports and education. Based on these achievements, this research project focused on athletic meets run by school sports federations, and aimed to analyze the process of their establishment and development from a historical-sociological perspective, and to consider the impact they had on the expansion and overheating of extracurricular sports activities.

Free Research Field

スポーツ社会学

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

本研究は、運動部活動が拡大し過熱化した理由を考察するために、先行研究が十分に分析してこなかった運動部活動の競技大会と学校体育連盟を取り上げて、それらを成立させてきた歴史的・社会的・経済的文脈を明らかにする点に学術的意義がある。また近年、過熱化が問題視されている運動部活動のあり方について、その原因と見なされる競技大会の成立背景を探ることで問題解決への展望を開く点で社会的意義がある。