1997 Volume 6 Pages 70-83,128
There are a few researches focus on influences of the macro level factors of socialization into sport. We can also find a few papers mention detail personal attributes of socializee in the field of socialization into sport.
The purpose of this paper is to understand a process of socialization into sport of an athlete with physical disability. The socialization process takes place in social interaction between social agents and the socializee. To achieve the purpose, the life history method was adopted in this paper.
To get the information, the author had a non-directive interview with a female athlete with physical disability who plays wheelchair basketball. The author also interviewed some people concerned with her and analyzed some documents to follow her life history.
The results found in this paper are as follows:
1. The socializee had social interaction with some different important social agents at the same period.
2. The socializee is an individual who could made herself socialized into sport, and was able to influence others.
3. To this athlete with spina bifida from her birth, good rehabilitation done in her childhood is very important for socialization into sport in her later life.
4. Integrated play, integrated physical activities, integrated sport and integrated physical education may provide good influences to the sport socialization of children with disability.
5. The process of the socialization into sport concerns itself with the social agents, social contexts, institutions, and culture.
