Socio-historical and ethical dimensions of sports and physical activities
[EDPH2139]
[45h] 4 credits
Teacher(s): Gérard Derèze
Language: French
Level: Second
Aims
- know and analyse the historical and social context of the main development and tendencies (cultural and civilizational) of physical and sports activities
- set the different historical, anthropoligical and sociological approaches of APS in the larger field of social sicences
- present, in a critical and well-informed way, the fundamental aspects of historical and anthropological analyses (presented during the lecture) of modern sport development
- identify the different values and representations (ideological, social, institutional and mediatical) linked to the AP and to the sport
- locate constituent principles of a code of ethics for sport (in the scientific studies and social discourses) and to discuss them (from the people viewpoint and from the socioeconomic organisation of society viewpoint)
- develop a critical analyse of social and ethical issues.
Main themes
- To present the major trends of historical, sociological and anthropological analyse of APS and to locate these trends in the specific field of social sciences.
- To deal systematically with the appearance and the development of modern sport by presenting the major historical steps and different sociological and anthropological approaches of the phenomenon.
- To deal with the real physical and sport practising bringing to the fore the homogenizing movements and the national, regional specificities.
- To analyse different medium and expression (institutional and mediatical for instance) that result form and take part in the building of values and contemporary representations of APS.
- To grasp (in a global, concrete and complex way) constituent principles of a code of ethic of sport (from the person viewpoint and from the people viewpoint and from the socioeconomic organisation of society viewpoint)
- To propose some texts and documents that will allow the students to build a critical and personal thoughts.
Other information (prerequisite, evaluation (assessment methods), course materials recommended readings, ...)
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