Abstract
Sports sociology has been paying increasingly more attention over the past two decades to fans and in a wider sociological aspect — to the role played by sportsmen in shaping the public opinion, social moods and social consciousness. In this article, the authors point to some general regularities and the specific qualities of the fan's entertainment activeness, peculiarity of his commitment to the world of sports.
All of these processes are reviewed by means of a group of workers, as this category of people represents the most typical group of sports fans. Moreover the principle of the mutual interrelation between the job and recreation, of the impact of the worker's position upon the form and character of spending leisure time have helped define the starting theoretical and methodological assumptions of the study.
In all, the authors elucidate the subjective and objective aspects of the enter tainment activeness of workers in sports and their interdependence on the social conditions of work and recreation. They cite four basic characteristics on which the social behaviour of the fan hinges: ways of obtaining the sports information, sex, evaluation of a sports spectacle, self-evaluation of the individual's engagement in sports.
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