| （School of Physical Education，Shenyang Normal University，Shenyang 110034，China） Abstract: Based on the theory of social stability, the authors analyzed approaches adopted by foreign countries to promote social stability, probed into the social stability boosting mechanism of sport, and drew the following main conclusions: 1)sport can let people take their hostile and discontent emotions out on sports objects of attack, and shift the attention of discontent groups, thus exerting the function of sport as a substitution target; 2)sport can effec-tively improve the psychology of discontent and the sense of frustration caused by the difference between expecta-tion and reality when economic conditions change, and also improve the sense of relative deprivation aggravated by the increase of income difference; 3)sports societies can effectively disperse directions of social discontent, and al-leviate social instability factors.
Key words: sport sociology；social stabilization；safety valve
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