Sporting activities and social stratification in the Czech Republic: a temporal perspective

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/16138171.2016.1248090" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/16138171.2016.1248090</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/16138171.2016.1248090" target="_blank" >10.1080/16138171.2016.1248090</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Sporting activities and social stratification in the Czech Republic: a temporal perspective

Original language description

Sports have assumed an important role among leisure activities in recent decades. The description of trends in sports participation and their differentiation among social groups are well documented, especially in the context of Western European countries. This paper uses unique datasets obtained from representative surveys of the Czech adult population conducted in 1984, 1991 and 2009 to analyze the relationship between leisure activities and social structure as well as changes to this relationship during the transformation from a socialist to a market economy. Cohort analysis shows significant growth in sports participation throughout the entire observation period, resulting from both generational changes and the general expansion of sports activities within individual cohorts. Furthermore, differentiation in leisure sports participation was strongly determined by social structure, especially as a function of cultural capital. The continuity of this relationship throughout the political and economic changes in Czech society after 1989 suggests that differentiation was associated with cultural distances between social classes, rather than economic or other barriers to sports participation.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_x - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)

CEP classification

AO - Sociology, demography

OECD FORD branch

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Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2016

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

European Journal for Sport and Society

ISSN

1613-8171

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

13

Issue of the periodical within the volume

4

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

18

Pages from-to

256-273

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

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