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sportocracy

sportocracy noun: the elevation of sport to a role of primary importance in the functions of a society.

Noun

sportocracy (uncountable)

  1. The elevation of sport to a role of primary importance in the functions of a society.
    • For quotations using this term, see Citations:sportocracy.
  2. The reduction of all or most major questions in a society to the competition between two or more competing sides.
    • As recent events suggest, we are living today in what I call a ‘sportocracy’. […] Moreover, each of us is interpellated, or hailed, by the sportocracy as fitting into certain categories, depending on our location in the social structure. […] In relation to sport, Barthes reminds us once again that...2007, Gamal Abdel-Shehid, “Welcome to the ‘sportocracy’: ‘Race’ and sport after innocence”, in Jennifer Hargreaves, Patricia Vertinsky, editors, Physical Culture, Power, and the Body (Routledge...

Questions about sportocracy

What does sportocracy mean?
Sportocracy means the elevation of sport to a role of primary importance in the functions of a society.
What part of speech is sportocracy?
Sportocracy is a noun.

Words near sportocracy in the dictionary

  1. sportlike
  2. sportling
  3. sportlings
  4. sportly
  5. sporto
  6. sportocracy
  7. sportocrat
  8. sportocratic
  9. sportocrats
  10. sportos
  11. sportponies

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