2022 eass & ISSA World Congress of Sociology of Sport

Session

PS 54: Sport, Policy and Governance 5

9 Jun 2022, 09:00

Description

Chair: Carlos Garcia Marti
Room: N16, Building C Level 3

178. The Social and Political Responsibilities of Sport

Ørnulf Seippel

09/06/2022, 09:00

Sport organizations’ purpose is to organize sport activities. Yet, at the same time, there are also a wide specter of expectations towards sport organizations when it comes to non-sportive issues. On the one hand sport organizations are supposed to contribute to social issues as integration, social equality, sustainable development and health. On the other hand, they are challenged to take...

179. How to promote physical activity at school? A socioecological study.

Rodrigo Soto-lagos

09/06/2022, 09:20

In recent years, the World Health Organization has declared that physical inactivity is a global problem and all the States associated to the United Nations system have create public policies to solve this issue. In this context, schools have been the key organizational focus to promote physical activity in children and youth population. The aim of this paper is to analyze physical activity...

180. Why has Swedish sport adopted integrity instruments?

Cecilia Stenling, Josef Fahlén

09/06/2022, 09:40

Objectives
During the past decade, ‘sport integrity’ has become a catchword of significant currency. Nonetheless, unethical conduct is not a new phenomenon neither internationally nor in Sweden. In fact, Swedish sport itself states that moral breaches have not increased. This raises a fundamental question of why Swedish sport has adopted integrity instruments? The objective of this...