| （School of Physical Education，Hanshan Normal University，Chaozhou 521041，China) Abstract: “Sports and social mobility” is a research hot topic in the western academia. By applying literature data approach and inductive analysis method, the author reviewed and analyzed authoritative representative works on “sports and social mobility” abroad in recent 50 years, summarized the research objects, main tops and research trends which foreign scholars focused on, and revealed the following findings: the research objects of “sports and social mobility” abroad were extremely extensive, almost covering all the groups of people having sports experi-ence, including elites, student athletes, coaches and sports management personnel, disadvantaged groups of people (including black people, minorities, social disadvantaged youth and women) etc.; the research topics focused mainly on exploring issues such as “whether sports can effectively promote the participants’ upward social mobility”, “comparison of the effects of social origins and education levels on sports participants’ social mobility”, “debates about the issue of equality of various groups of people in the process of social mobility”, “functions of sports inter-vention projects on social disadvantaged youth” etc, the research produced conclusion differences due to object and focus differences, forming a debating situation; in which, sports intervention on social disadvantaged youth is a re-search hot topic of foreign scholars in recent years, having a universal value.
Key words: sports sociology；sports and social mobility；social stratum；race；group；review |
