A Modern View of the Community in a Theory of Community Sports

In this study,we suggest reorganization of regional sports clubs as sports groups in Japan because we consider that it is a social foundation to reconstruct community.We analyze a club as a social and communal space that matches human relation in urban society.In this study,basing on “a theory of a club culture”that Arai proposed,we define a club as follows:“A club is a network of several groups with mild personal connections that are not restricted to the region, and its function is a community supported by a productive aspect of personal various abilities and endowments yielding identification of self.”Furthermore,in a theory of community sports from now on,regarding a social function of a club as a main function of promoting regional sports,we suggest that a club has a standpoint as a cooperative and productive network of regional various groups as“a cooperative community”