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Theorizing Community for Sport Management Research and Practice
Kyle A Rich1, Ramón Spaaij2,3, Laura Misener4
1Department of Recreation and Leisure Studies, Brock University, St. Catharines, ON, Canada.
Frontiers in Sports and Active Living
|December 13, 2021
Summary
This study explores community within sport management research, using communitarian theory to deepen understanding. It offers a framework for scholars and practitioners to critically analyze community
Area of Science:
- Sport Management
- Sociology of Sport
- Sport Policy
Background:
- Community is a central concept in sport research, yet theoretical frameworks are often implicit.
- Existing sport management research lacks explicit theoretical engagement with the concept of community.
- Need for a robust conceptualization of community in sport management research and practice.
Purpose of the Study:
- To contribute to a robust discussion and conceptualization of community in sport management.
- To draw from communitarian theory and politics to inform sport management research.
- To advance a critical communitarian agenda for sport management research and practice.
Main Methods:
- Synthesis of current sport management and related research.
- Drawing from communitarian theory and politics.
- Distinguishing community as context, outcome, site for struggle, or social control.
Main Results:
- Identified contemporary theoretical and methodological approaches to studying community in sport.
- Differentiated community's roles: context, outcome, site for struggle/resistance, regulation/social control.
- Proposed a critical communitarian agenda for sport management.
Conclusions:
- Establishes a foundation for critical reflection on community in sport management.
- Provides practical implications for sport management research and practice.
- Encourages deliberate articulation of community's implications in future sport research.
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