| （School of Physical Education，West Anhui University，Lu’an 237012，China） Abstract: Studying sport social phenomena must be started with establishing concepts. The author developed the lower concept of social interaction in sport sociology, named it as sports social interaction, and defined its connota-tion as “social communication activities in sports cultural activities, engaged in by people via certain channels and by following corresponding norms in order to satisfy and realize their certain needs and interests”. The author elaborated the constituent elements, main types and practical significance of sport social interaction respectively in such aspects as satisfying individual needs, passing on sports information, promoting resource sharing and boosting social communication, by basing the standards on the number, group identity, activities, interaction purposes and in-teraction manners, from the perspective of such links as activist, goal, carrier, norm and environment.
Key words: sport sociology；sport social interaction；concept development |
