Biological and Social Context of Physical Culture and Sport

Notions sport, physical culture, body culture the one with the narrowest range is the notion of sport together with sport sciences. A notion wider than that is the notion of physical culture (and the connected notion of physical culture sciences) which includes - apart from various forms of sport - also the abovementioned manifestations of movement therapy or non-medical, non-erotic forms of massage. The notion of body culture (and cognitive reflection referring to it) goes well beyond the range of the notion of sport (and sport sciences) and the notion of physical culture (and physical culture sciences). It includes all sport and non-sporting phenomena, activities, theories and farms of scientific and non-scientific reflection referring to culturally determined aspects of the human body. It is such a wide notion that issues concerning physical culture (and sport, which is connected with it) which are placed in it undergoes considerable marginalisation in it and loses their autonomy to a considerable degree. Taking into account limitations concerning the notion of sport (and of the connected sciences) as well as difficulties concerning defining the notion of body culture - as well as the vague and ambiguous character of the notion and of the researched subject of body culture (Eichberg 2009), it seems that the most suitable - from the identity-related and cultural viewpoint - for a package of issues characterized in that paper and the concerning field of research seems to be the notion of physical culture (and of the connected sciences).