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SPORTS MOVEMENT: CONCEPT, ESSENCE, CONTENT (0.37 Mb, pdf) Read
Authors:
Bratkov Kirill Ilich
Keywords:
physical culture
sports
sports movement
legal framework
organizational and pedagogical conditions
socio-economic conditions
components
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The purpose of the study was to clarify the concept and identify the essence and content of sports movements that have developed in Russia and abroad, taking into account current socio-economic conditions.

Research methods and organization: retrospective, comparative, and systemic analysis were used. The research was based on current and obsolete regulatory legal acts, scientific publications on the subject area of the study, as well as the charters and conceptual (strategic) documents of sports and public organizations.

Research results and discussion: this article presents a systemic analysis of domestic and international sports movements. The regulatory, organizational, pedagogical, and scientific-practical conditions for their formation and development are identified. A retrospective analysis of scholarly views on the study of sports movements in the Soviet and modern periods is presented. A comparison of social, political, youth, and sports movements allowed us to identify their substantive features, while comparison with international experience allowed us to determine their essential specifics. As a result of the study, the author proposes a method for characterizing sports movements based on an analysis of interrelated components. 

Conclusion: the concept and essence of the sports movement have changed depending on the goals and objectives assigned to it by the state and society, and the content is determined by individual components that allow us to characterize and highlight emerging and developing individual movements.

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