(School of Physical Education,Hunan Normal University,Changsha 410012,China) Abstract: Today’s study of rural sports focuses more on subject contents, but lacks in study methods and perspec-tives. By analyzing the contradictive relation between “near experiences” and “future experiences” in rural sports, the author probed into the necessity of local perspective in today’s study by comparing the realistic differences be-tween the imagination of “future experiences” and “near experiences”, explained its feasibility by analyzing today’s achievements in local study of rural sports, considered that we should, in order to comprehensively contemplate and control rural sports, maintain a local perspective besides referring to western sociological methods and theories and holding to the ground of modern sports, and therefore put forward the following strategies for localized study of ru-ral sports: firmly root to the local ground; rely more on local study methods. Key words: sport society;study of rural sports;local perspective |