Sport Practices and Liquid Customs
- By Eguzki Urteaga
- and Juan Aldaz
Pages 147 to 157
Cite this article
- URTEAGA, Eguzki
- and ALDAZ, Juan,
- Urteaga, Eguzki.
- et al.
- Urteaga, E.
- and Aldaz, J.
https://doi.org/10.3917/soc.120.0147
Cite this article
- Urteaga, E.
- and Aldaz, J.
- Urteaga, Eguzki.
- et al.
- URTEAGA, Eguzki
- and ALDAZ, Juan,
https://doi.org/10.3917/soc.120.0147
The aim of this article is to show how sport activities are a paradigmatic example of what we understand under liquid customs. In order to do this, we begin by assuming that human beings are both builders and under construction, for which we are in constant movement, and therefore constantly engaged in physical activity. Therefore, one could say that deep down in the ideal of Homo faber, there is an “essential” characteristic, related to our Homo impiger, that is to say, active beings. Nevertheless, the particularity of sport practice, specifically, but also all social praxis by individuals of liquid modernity, is historically characterized particularity, in our view, for three particularly significant and interconnected processes: 1) technicization; 2) acculturation; 3) (re)construction/(re)institutionalization.
Keywords
- sporting habits
- liquid modernity
- institutionalization
Publisher keywords: institutionalization, liquid modernity, sporting habits