Rodzinne Family Determinants of Sports Consumption in the Sociological Aspect

Zbigniew Dziubiński

doi:10.21852/sem.1868

Published: 2025-11-10

Vol. 46 No. 2 (2025)

Rodzinne Family Determinants of Sports Consumption in the Sociological Aspect

Zbigniew Dziubiński

Seminare. Learned Investigations

Section: Articles

https://doi.org/10.21852/sem.1868

Abstract

The aim of the work is to characterise the family as a social group reproducing attitudes and behaviours in the field of sports. More precisely, to show the family socio-cultural variables that determine sports consumption. The work presents the basic social issues that have a decisive impact on the participation of the family in sports consumption, namely the types of families, their structure, power, but also the types of families and the differences and inequalities that exist between them. The work is of a review-theoretical nature, in which existing empirical data constituting scientific theories, as well as data generated by earlier social researchers, were used. To solve the formulated research problem, the method of critical analysis of literature was used, but also, as a kind of auxiliary, the inductive and deductive method and the synthetic and analytical method. The conducted analyses show that the positioning of families in the social structure is of fundamental importance from the point of view of preparing the younger generation for sports consumption. The high position of the family in the social structure in terms of class, status and strata, the high position in social stratification in terms of access to such social resources as education, profession, wealth and social prestige, is a circumstance that favours socialisation to sports consumption and, in a sense, guarantees the participation of the family and its members in sports culture. The low position of the family in the social structure adversely affects the process of socialisation to sports consumption and, in some cases, makes it a socialisation to not participate in it.

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family, sports consumption, sociological conditions

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Dziubiński, Z. (2025). Rodzinne Family Determinants of Sports Consumption in the Sociological Aspect. Seminare. Learned Investigations, 46(2). https://doi.org/10.21852/sem.1868

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