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IDENTITY REINFORCEMENT IN SPORT

Revisiting the Symbolic Interactionist Legacy

Otmar Weiss

University of Vienna, Austria

The mechanism of role adoption is a constituent of identity reinforcement or social recognition in sport. It enables actors to realize and confirm their identities. This can occur because sport is a culturally specific and clearly visible activity. As sport takes place unequivocally within the context of society's significant symbols, it can have an impact on the actor's self-perception, self-esteem, and self-worth. In other words, sport has a vital social dimension since it ideally combines self-recognition with social recognition. Role analysis and symbolic interactionism are reviewed for their potential to inform these dimensions of sport's place in modern societies.

Key Words: identity • social recognition • sport as a social phenomenon • symbolic interactionism

International Review for the Sociology of Sport, Vol. 36, No. 4, 393-405 (2001)
DOI: 10.1177/101269001036004002
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