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The elevation of sport to a role of primary importance in the functions of a society..
For quotations using this term, see Citations:sportocracy.
As recent events suggest, we are living today in what I call a ‘sportocracy’. […] Moreover, each of us is interpellated, or hailed, by the sportocracy as fitting into certain categories, depending on our location in the social structure. […] In relation to sport, Barthes reminds us once again that the dominant representations of sport, and by extension the ‘sportocracy’, operate to offer truth-claims about the worlds we live in far beyond the world of sport.
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Sportocracy means The elevation of sport to a role of primary importance in the functions of a society..
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For quotations using this term, see Citations:sportocracy.
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