Author(s): A. Burak KAHRAMAN
Parallel to globalizing values in the ever-globalizing universe football phenomenon, with its increasing significance in all cultures and social groups, has become an inseparable part of our daily lives. By virtue of being a profitable and industrializable sport branch easy to track, football has been widely adopted by corporations, populations and government authorities at most. Insomuch as today, due to ever-enhancing effect of popular culture on general public, it is now a much stronger element in reconstructing and reshaping the function of daily life. Based on this assumption, in order to identify sociological account of the transformative role of football in social dynamics and future expectations of amateur club footballers, present research initially probes into the history of football and the way football popularized and industrialized within global system. Next, social demographics of amateur league footballers are described and it has been attempted to draw a sociological analysis based on their future expectations.
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