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Czech Sport Governing Bodies and Social Capital

Dino Numerato

Luigi Bocconi University, Milan, Italy, dino.numerato{at}unibocconi.it

The main objective of the study is to explore the mechanisms influencing the nature of civic engagement in sport federations with a particular interest in barriers undermining their functioning. The article is based on the multi-sited ethnographic study in three sport governing bodies in the Czech Republic (handball, football and sailing) and uses a combination of techniques such as participant and non-participant observation, semi-structured interviews and secondary analysis of available documents. The main barriers identified are seen as a product of encounters between local and national levels of sport governing bodies. The concept of social capital with its structural, relational and cognitive dimensions is presented as a tool to grasp the phenomena under study.

Key Words: civic engagement • Czech Republic • ethnographic study • social capital • sport governing body

International Review for the Sociology of Sport, Vol. 43, No. 1, 21-34 (2008)
DOI: 10.1177/1012690208093469
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