The Role of Sport in Fostering Open and Inclusive Societies
Study
15-09-2015
TThis briefing paper provides an overview of models of the roles sport can play in different intercultural and multicultural policy approaches. It highlights in particular the relationship between intercultural and multicultural approaches in the development of social capital among marginal groups in society. Central to the discussion is the adoption of a realist approach to identifying causal mechanisms which bring about social change, and the place of Intergroup Contact Theory in explaining the potential for the development of intercultural understanding through sport.
Study
External author
Ian Henry (Centre of Olympic Studies & Research, Loughborough University)
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Publication type
Policy area
Keyword
- anti-discriminatory measure
- cultural pluralism
- culture and religion
- deepening of the European Union
- European construction
- European identity
- EUROPEAN UNION
- health
- integration of migrants
- LAW
- migration
- POLITICS
- politics and public safety
- professional sport
- public awareness campaign
- public health
- rights and freedoms
- social affairs
- social integration
- SOCIAL QUESTIONS
- social role
- sporting event