| （School of Physical Education，Huaibei Normal University，Huaibei 235000，China) Abstract: From the research perspective of the cultural reproduction theory, the author analyzed debate about the concept of sport, and drew the following conclusions: as a cultural product, sport and its related concepts are its presentation in different historical periods and development stages, trying to pursue the absolutely true meaning of sport is inconformity with the pattern of cultural reproduction; debate about the concept of sport is a significant turn of social research methods, cognition of the nature of sport embodies an important change of human thinking mode; research on the issue of sports origin is the reflection of ontological thinking mode, microscopic exploration itself into such a macroscopic issue is a logical contradiction; in ancient China, there were miscellaneous sports phenom-ena, which were the processes of sports practice reproduction; the discussion about the concept of sport involves the gifted capital and habits of academic groups, as well as debate about the field of power legitimacy.
Key words: sport culture；cultural product；cultural reproduction；concept of sport |
