According to Pociello (1999), the demography of sports is the most recent of the applied social sciences. She wants to analyze the “stocks”, that means, the annual census of federal practitioners and observation of its evolution over time. This allows the construction of a simple graphic in several years and to draw a curve of the "life cycle" of the sport considered. On the other hand, allows the study of the internal movements of people affiliated on sports (in a club, a federation, etc.), or flows of entries (accessions) and exits (drop-outs) annually. These flows, whose importance has been placed in evidence in the whole population of sports, can be called “turn-over”. It is through the data basis of data provided annually by the federations of the practitioners that we can see the stocks of practitioners belonging to a federation and its evolution through time. The demographic notions, such as “birth”, “death”, “migration” and “immigration”, is effectively reflected in the sports as a metaphor, referring to the more complex processes recognized: births (first membership in a particular sport), death (drop-outs, conversion to other sports or associations), switch from others sports, associations (from other sports or renewals of membership, after an interruption - rebirth).
Crossing the Demography, Sociology of Population and Sociology of Sport, the communication to be present at the 9th European Sociological Association Conference (Lisbon on Sept. 2nd-5th, 2009) aims to raise awareness among researchers and other professionals for the needing of the reflection on the Demography of Sport.
Keywords: Demography; Demography of Sport; Sociology of Sport
Submetido ao 9th European Sociological Association (2 a 5 de Setembro, ISCTE, Lisboa)
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