Perspectives of Sport in a Global World

Sport is increasingly becoming a lifetime companion of man, from kindergarten up to the sport of ninety-year-olds. The dynamics of the job market require mobility, which again weakens the solidity of social networks. Due to this development society has become extremely complex. The author states that we can only temporarily commit ourselves to partial relationships. It is characteristic of those decades to almost obsessively modernise everything that was held to belong to yesterday. Modernisation itself is gaining acceptance primarily through specific developmental processes, of which the author analyses five characteristics: Individualisation, rationalisation, economisation, increasing legalisation and globalisation. In the change of paradigms there will be some key developments that concern the whole world.One can recognise some striking characteristics as indications of problems that could accompany and burden life in sport in the coming years. Ten aspects are highlighted. The author concludes that Sport has come to an arrangement with the mainstream of society. It is on the side of those that follow market logic. It not surprising, however, that critics see it as a driving force for social injustice.