sportocracy

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The elevation of sport to a role of primary importance in the functions of a society. uncountable
    — For quotations using this term, see Citations:sportocracy.
  2. The reduction of all or most major questions in a society to the competition between two or more competing sides. uncountable
    — As recent events suggest, we are living today in what I call a ‘sportocracy’. […] Moreover, each of us is interpellated, or hailed, by the sportocracy as fitting into certain categories, depending on our location in the social structure. […] In relation to sport, Barthes reminds us once again that the dominant representations of sport, and by extension the ‘sportocracy’, operate to offer truth-claims about the worlds we live in far beyond the world of sport.

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