Bykhovskaya I.
Abstract. The author analyses the modern sport from the standpoint of its social and cultural determination, axiological and notional charging. The sport is examined as a symbolic and communicative system; representations of sport in the arts are specially addressed.
Key words: sport, cultural analysis of sport, symbol, sport symbolisation, sport as an art subject, performance
Bykhovskaya Irina Markovna,
Doctor in Philosophy, PhD in Sociology, Professor,
Head of the Department for Cultural Research in Socialisation Issues
of the Russian Institute for Cultural Research (Moscow)
e-mail:
byk.irina@gmail.com