Evaluation of the Current Social Perspective Towards Our Ancestors’ Sport Wrestling
Abstract
Wrestling has served as important social and cultural functions in Turkish culture and in Turkish sports history and it has been in a very important place for our society. Aim of this study was to investigate the current social perspective against wrestling as seen our ancestors’ sport. A total of 876 participants who were selected with random sampling method completed this survey. The modified version of “Attitude Scale towards Oil Wrestling” developed by Güven and Öncü (2011) was used as an instrument. The survey form was conducted as face to face and online survey to the sample. As the data has not a normal distribution Mann-Whitney U and Kruskal-Wallis nonparametric tests were used. The main findings reveal that interest towards wrestling is lower in young people, even %32 of participants doesn’t know one of the wrestlers, more than half of the participants (%54) has never watched wrestling and approximately half of the participants now or in the future if they have children (%45) doesn’t want their children not to do wrestling sport. The findings demonstrate that social interest towards wrestling is low although it is seen as our ancestors’ sport. In international literature, the similar studies demonstrate that social interest towards traditional sports is decreasing. The results can be used as a base in studies for popularization of wrestling which has an important place in our culture throughout the history again, for its being in its deserved place and for its continuing its existence and functions.
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Ayrıntılar
Birincil Dil
Türkçe
Konular
Spor Hekimliği
Bölüm
Araştırma Makalesi
Yayımlanma Tarihi
30 Haziran 2017
Gönderilme Tarihi
19 Ekim 2016
Kabul Tarihi
7 Haziran 2017
Yayımlandığı Sayı
Yıl 2017 Cilt: 12 Sayı: 1