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Sport permeates all levels of modern society, having a wide impact on the main spheres of society’s life. It affects national relations, business life, social status, fashion, ethical values, people’s lifestyle. In support of this thesis, one can cite the words of the famous athlete A. Volkov: “… today sport is the main social factor that can resist the invasion of cheap culture and bad habits. This is the best “rattle” that can distract people from the current social problems. This is, perhaps, the only “glue” that can glue the whole nation together, which neither religion, nor politicians can do.”
Indeed, sport has a powerful socializing power. Politicians have long considered sport as a national hobby that can unite society with a single national idea, fill it with a peculiar ideology, people’s desire for success, for victory.
Sociological surveys of the population, especially young people involved in sports, show that sport forms the initial idea of life and the world. It is in sport that such important values for modern society as equality of chances for success and achievement of success are most clearly manifested. The desire to be the first, to defeat not only the opponent, but also oneself.
People who have gone through the “school of sports” are convinced that sports helped them to develop faith in their own strengths and capabilities, as well as the ability to use them. Sport teaches to make sacrifices in order to achieve the goal. Lessons learned by young athletes on the sports field, then, as a rule, help in life.Many of the athletes claim that it was sport that made them a person capable of being a person. Through sport, the principle of modern life is realized – “to count on oneself.” This means that the achievement of success depends, first of all, on personal, individual qualities: ambition, initiative, diligence, patience, strong-willed skills.
In the sociology of physical culture, as a young science, the established approaches to assessing the importance of sports in modern society are currently being reviewed. The new socio-economic conditions of the development of society have put before physical culture and sports activities the problems of forming new values of orientation, patterns of behavior, meanings, lifestyles.
One of the main problems of social physical culture and sports is the formation of the value attitude of society and the individual to physical culture and sports lifestyle.
Currently, physical culture and sports are a multifunctional social phenomenon. This is due to the fact that this area of activity concerns the education of a person – the main element of the productive forces of society. Physical movement is carried out under the direct influence of social relations that develop between people, penetrates not only into the field of culture, but also other important aspects of life: politics, economics, etc. Physical culture and sports, as a phenomenon of social life, are characterized by both specific and general cultural, and wellness and educational functions.All these functions are closely interconnected, intertwined with each other, their separation is conditional, exploratory in nature. The first ones include: the development of physical features, the satisfaction of social and natural needs for physical activity and optimization based on physical condition.
Of particular importance is the state of health. Human health is determined by both biological and social factors and has, one might say, “double determination”. Physical culture and mass sports contribute to the prevention and reduction of a number of diseases.
General cultural ties arise as a result of its multilateral ties with other social phenomena. The main goal and an important factor in involving the population (especially young people) in regular physical education and sports is the comprehensive and harmonious development of the individual.
