| （1.School of Physical Education，South China Normal University，Guangzhou 510006，China；2.Department of Physical Education，Kashi Teachers College，Kashi 844000，China） Abstract: Instrumental rationality refers to a philosophical ideology having a dominating position in western indus-trial civilization. Modern competitive sports as an important product of human industrial civilization is of course af-fected profoundly by such a philosophical ideology: on the one hand, the “space of interests” is constantly expanded and set, which makes competitive sports a special instrument for various participants; on the other hand, under the trend of development of competitive sports becoming more and more instrument like, various obvious contradic-tions and conflicts have gone through the entire process of globalization of competitive sports.
Key words: sports sociology；competitive sports；instrumental rationality |
