title: [Sports and health, view-point of a sociologist].
abstract: The expression "health" covers a wide physical, psychic and social range. The phenomenon "sport", in its cultural form, has evolved historically and is constantly changing. In the today's sport movement, we can see differences in age, sex, and social status related to the type of sport practised, the frequency and the motivation as well as its form of organization. The main inducement for practising sport is by friends. At the end of the article, the author points out that it is problematic to misuse sport for pedagogic aims or aims of preventive medicine, because in such cases, sport runs the risk to lose its initial objective which, originally, had no definite goal other than the experience itself. Moreover, it is irrational to believe that sport alone can cure civilization diseases both in the physical as well as in the psychic and social range.
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D009042:Motivation; D011315:Preventive Medicine; D011998:Recreation; D012931:Social Environment; D012961:Sociology; D013177:Sports; D013178:Sports Medicine
vernacular_title: Sport und Gesundheit aus der Sicht eines Soziologen