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Research On The Social Values Of Beijing Olympic Games

Posted on:2011-11-01Degree:DoctorType:Dissertation
Country:ChinaCandidate:C Y WangFull Text:PDF
GTID:1117330332966424Subject:Physical Education and Training
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Olympic Games has exerted a profound and increasingly distinct social influence in the hosting city, the hosting country as well as the whole human world. Beijing Olympic Games is a great communication between the oriental and the occidental civilization. The social values contained in it are worth our all-round analysis and systemetic research.In this dissertation, the author probes the social values of Beijing Olympic Games and its manifestation by comprehensively employing several research methods such as reading literature, investigation, comparision and logic analysis based on such theories as philosophy, sociology, history, pedagogy and psychology.At first, an introduction to the background, research aim, significance and research methodology are presented. Meanwhile, the value, Olympics, the influences of Beijing Olympic Games and the current studies on this field at home and abroad are summarised for the research of the social values of Beijing Olympic Games. In the second chapter, the concise history of modern Olympic movements is introduced generally in order to straighten out the historic veins of Olympic Games'development clearly. And then, the social values of modern Olympic Games are discussed on view of philosophy. The third and fourth chapters are the main parts of the dissertatiion, in which the social values of Beijing Olympics are explored from the international and domestic aspects. On the one hand, Beijing Olympic Games exerts great influences on the international community. Firstly, Beijing Olympic Games carry foreward the Olympic spirits widely. It also reveals the modern and open national image of P.R.C. comprehensively and clearly. Thirdly, It promotes the intercommunication and harmony between the oriental and occidental cultures. Beijing Olympics initiates and puts into practice the ideal of Harmonious World. It promotes the progress of Olympics Movement. Beijing Olympic Games builds a bridge of acknowledgement, friendship and union-cooperation between the people in the whole world. On the other hand, the successful hosting of Beijing Olympic Games is significant for the Chinese social modernization.This grand game not only promotes Chinese modernization and the construction of harmonious society, but also enhances the national cohesion of our Chinese. It pushes ahead with the modernization of Chinese sports and accelerates the psychological mature of Chinese people. Its success has also made known the excellent administrational capability of Chinese government. Moreover, Beijing Olympic Games has brouhgt about aboundant material and spiritual wealth for Chinese people. The researcher puts foreward two main ways of the exploration of the social values of Beijing Olympic Games in the fifth chapter. In the sixth chapter, several important views are proposed based on the disscussion in previous chapters. The researcher finds out two interactional regularities on the basis of previous achievements: one is the interaction law between Olympic movement and the development of society, the other is the inseparable interaction between Olympic movement and Chinese development. At the same time, it also refines several judgements: Beijing Olympic Games is beneficial to improve Chinese international status and enhance the modern and open national image of China. It contains aboundant social, cultural and life-styles'values. And it has written a peculiar Chinese chapter in the history of the international Olympic movement. Beijing Olympic Games inevitably leaves a profound impact on the construction of Chinese socialist modernization in the future, which is permanent and all-round embodyment of Beijing Olympic Games'social values.In brief, the dissertation puts forward the theorical system of the conception and its extensions of the social values of Beijing Olympic Games by means of literature, observation, comparision and logic analysis. And then, the thesis sums up two relational traits:one is the interaction law between Olympics movement and the development of society; the other is the inseparable interaction between Olympics movement and Chinese development. At the same time, it also refines several judgements. Beijing Olympic Games firmly improves Chinese international status and enhances the modern and open national image of China. This grand game contains aboundant social, cultural and life-styles'values. And it has written a peculiar Chinese chapter in history of the international Olympic movement. The research is expected to provide the theorical basis for the virtuous interaction between the Olympic Movement and the Chinese society.
Keywords/Search Tags:Olympic Movement, Beijing Olympic Games, National Image, National Cohesion, Social Modernization
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