The Meaning of Sport in Our Time - From Athens to London 2012

Scientific Study from the year 2012 in the subject Sport - Sport Economics Sport Management language: English abstract: A ten-dimensional global sports study covering:1. THE NATION AS THE DOMINANT FORCE: THE CULTURAL AMBIVALENCE INHERENT IN THE OLYMPIC GAMES AND IN GLOBAL SPORTS2. THE SOCIO-HISTORICAL ASPECT3. THE CULTURAL IMPERATIVE OF GLOBAL SPORTS4. SOCCER FROM AN ECONOMIC AND A POLITICAL STANDPOINT5. SOCCER FROM A SOCIOPSYCHOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE6. CULTURAL STRATEGY TACTICS AND STYLES OF SOCCER7. THE WESTERN CULTURAL BIAS WITH REGARD TO THE CULITVATION OF HUMAN BODY MIND AND SPIRIT AND COMPLEMENTARY APPROACHES TO HUMAN INTEGRITY AND WHOLENESS8. ORIENT AND OCCIDENT: EAST-WEST SYNERGY9. A UNIVERSAL CULTURE OF COMMUNICATION FOR THE GLOBAL ERA10 A UNIVERSAL TOOL FOR INTERNATIONAL DIVERSITY MANAGEMENT: THE TRANSCULTURAL PROFILER