CORRELATION OF PROFESSIONAL SPORT WITH OTHER TYPES OF SPORT: PROBLEMS OF TYPOLOGY
Keywords:
subinstitute, youth sports, sport of the highest achievements, mass sport, professional sport, amateur sport, Institute of Entrepreneurship, Institute of SportAbstract
This article introduces the concept of "professional sport as a subinstitution." Its justification is connected with the need to overcome the contradictions that arose on the basis of the outdated classification of sport in the framework of the activity approach, when the markers that are not working in the new social conditions are used to distinguish its varieties, dividing sport into professional and amateur, professional and Olympic, professional and sport of the highest achievements. Social evolution of sport has led to the formation of its two forms: professional and mass. The author proposes a new concept, which, within the framework of the institutional approach of D. North, allows solving the problems of the typology of sport that sociology faces at the present stage.
