The footballisation of the polish sociology of sport

• Main Author: Jakub Ryszard Stempień
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Lodz University Press 2020-12-01
• Series: Acta Universitatis Lodziensis: Folia Sociologica
• Subjects: footballisation; sociology of sport; football; sports
• Online Access: https://czasopisma.uni.lodz.pl/sociologica/article/view/9478

The article addresses the issue of the unique position of football among sports, which supports Bromberger’s thesis on the footballisation of society. As an overview of publications shows, football has occupied a special place in the international sociology of sport over the last 30 years; studies of football have been among the twenty most popular topics within the sub-discipline. However, it would be unjustified to speak of the footballisation of the international sociology of sport, understood as the overrepresentation of football in this sub-discipline. The situation is different when it comes to the Polish sociology of sport, where up to 50% of publications in the first fifteen years of the 21st century tackled various football-related issues. In conclusion, theses concerning possible consequences of the footballisation of the Polish sociology of sport are presented, including the type I and type II errors.