Sports as a Social Institution: Exploring the Interconnections between Sports and Social Institutions

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to look at sports as a social institution. A society is a group of people who are bound together by particular relationships or behaviours that distinguish them from those who do not engage in those relationships or who behave differently. Institutions are the building blocks of societies. Social institutions are established systems for the satisfaction of fulfilment of some basic human needs. Sport is an essential component of any social institution. The authorities organise sporting events in every institution in order to create a favourable learning atmosphere. Sport is one of the most effective means of connection and socialisation. Sport, as a social institution, has close and intense relationships with other social institutions in this sense (primarily with family, economics, mass media, politics, healthcare, law, religion).