(School of Physical Education,East China Normal University,Shanghai 200241,China) Abstract: The author described the tenets of two important roots for sport generation in western sports sociology – “the theory of sport origination in ancient times” and “the theory of sport origination in modern times”. On such a basis, according to the basis disputes about the two theories about sport origination as well as the correlations be-tween the body and the society, and between individuals and sport, the author formed the possibility and necessity to analyze theories about sport origination with the body dimension involved. Then, from the perspective of the body dimension, the author highlighted the characteristics of the body mechanism of the theory of sport origination in an-cient times, as well as the interpretation of the body and the body’s intermediation and field domain characteristics under the post-modern thinking mode in the theory of sport origination in modern times. Lastly, by retrospecting such two presuppositions as body “virtualization” and body “substantialization” existing in the theory of sport origination in modern times, the author analyzed the screening of these two presuppositions from body recognition. On such a basic, by basing his theoretical ground on Bourdieu’s habit theory, and with the help of the fusion action of the sports habit concept on body functions and body meanings, the author tried to build a theoretical framework for interpreting the habit theory about sport origination, and explained that sport origination is a process of habit formation. Key words: sports sociology;western sport;origination theory;body dimension |