| （1.School of Physical Education，Shandong University of Technology，Zibo 255049，China；2.Physical Education and Culture Department of Chinese Agricultural University，Beijing 100083，China） Abstract: From the perspective of western sociology, the authors performed a sociological analysis on the course and result of sports participation by teenagers, as well as the mutual influence between sports participation and so-cial environments by applying the function analysis method and by means of interview, so as to provide a reference for studying the socialization of sports participation by teenagers. The authors revealed the following findings: teenagers’ decisions to start, continue, terminate or quit sports participation are related to social and cultural back-grounds, and keep changing as social environments change; the result of sports participation by teenagers is that most teenagers stopped exercising and shifted their focus to other things for reasons such as excessive fatigue and status loss during continuous high intensity sports training, so as to blend into the society better; the utilitarian pur-suit based on the “performance orientated” principle, which occurs throughout the process of sports participation by teenagers, is contradictive to the original idea of “participation for fun” for sports participation, and therefore has caused serious negative effects on teenagers and the society.
Key words: sport community；sports participation；socialization；teenager；athlete |
