Font Size: a A A

Cultural Studies On Modern Football Sports

Posted on:2006-02-04Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:X LiFull Text:PDF
GTID:2167360155968040Subject:Humanities and sociology
Abstract/Summary:PDF Full Text Request
Known as the first sport in the world, football has gained popularity all over the world since the England Football Association was founded in the Freemason's Tavern on Oct, 26 1863 and the representatives from seven European countries Football Association founded the FIFA, in St. Aurole Avenue 229,Paris France, on May 21st 1904. When we look back the history of modern football sports, especially the hundred yeas history of FIFA, from coming through the two world wars, ragid effect that trade function imposes on the football, to the reasonable working and purchasing that football meets human being's ideality, we can find, as a kind of social cultural precept, modern football infiltrates the complementary and rearranged cultural element in itself all over in the consistent way of positive or negative accompanying with the human being's development, it embraces many sections that consisting the human being, for example, political culture, financial culture, social culture and so on .Speaking of political function, modern football means to diminish the danger of war, pursuit peace, stabilize government and offer the international diplomacy. But there is still a chance for it being used by narrow political countries and to be a kind of tool for individual or collective to reach their political aims.Speaking of trade function, because of the drive of purchasing of the economical profit, modern football not only develops a fancy world of highly developing economy but also contributes for government finance, and provides numerous employment chance in the domain of it or out for society. Certainly, high finance handicaps the modern development of the football meanwhile, leads to all kinds of economical crisis occasionally.Speaking of social function, modern football more and more takes up the effect of furthering health and harmony of human being, it brings the positive effect in humanism purchase ,teenage education, going down all kinds of culture, meeting people's needs of cultural living and aesthetic entertainment .But, the side effect of social livingaccompanies with it, challenging gradually the modern football.It's just duty for the modern football to cope well with the relationship between developing in itself and social living, and the problems appeared gradually in the course of developing, draws in the positive cultural sections from one hundred years developing history of modern football, diminishes the negative cultural sections, allocates refined and positive effect for human being of healthy and harmony. When he interviewed the visitors in the International Football Association headquarter on April 2,2004 in Zurich Brad said: "There are many problems in the world, not only the football we have to think about, make the better world before the game." It's just the slogan for FIFA to put up through the world in the celebration of anniversary, it is the reasonable declaration of modern football, and the significance of the paper lies in it.
Keywords/Search Tags:cultural studies, modern football sports
PDF Full Text Request
Related items