Год выпуска: 2011 Автор: Charlotte Van Tuyckom Издательство: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing Страниц: 288 ISBN: 9783846554357
Описание
Europeans nowadays are offered a differentiated sport culture in which they can put together their very own personal sport programs. Since so many different choices exist, one would expect that the number of Europeans taking part in sport is very large. In the research articles that are brought together in this book, we notice, however, striking cross-national differences. In general, it can be concluded that of all European Union citizens, around 60% takes part in sport or exercise, implying that still four out of ten Europeans are not active in sport. There are, however, many differences in the nature and scope of sport participation between the member states of the European Union. In addition, not only between but also within European Union member states, different patterns of inequality with respect to participation in sport could be found. What is more, the structures in sport practices do not occur in all countries to the same degree, i.e. the magnitude of individual differences...
