A study on sports and community formation with an eye to the population decline and super-aged society

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 23500738
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Sports science
• Research Institution: Kumamoto University
• Principal Investigator: GOTO TAKAHIRO 熊本大学, 教育学部, 准教授 (20289622)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): TOKUNO Sadao 熊本大学, 文学部, 教授 (40197877) ; ITO Keizo 秋田大学, 教育文化学部, 准教授 (40451653)
• Project Period (FY): 2011-04-28 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: 地域スポーツ / 農山村 / 生活 / 地域組織活動

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The purpose of this research was to get the knowledge about sports and community formation, which contemplated future's population decrease and super-aging, from experimental study about cooperativity of sports organizations activities in rural. First we learned in the "Life Agricultural Theory" which becomes a theoretical background of this research. We pointed out the importance of to overlook the whole local community and to catch various living territory in interdependent. In case analysis, it was possible to show that people can become a member of the community by having a relationship with the local community life in the sport of practice process. This is different from the creation of the "public sphere" as claimed in the recent discussion about sports and community formation.

Free Research Field

スポーツ社会学