Einstellungsforschung zu Sportvereinsmitgliedern sowie ehrenamtlich Engagierten und hauptberuflich t?tigen Personen im organisierten Sport

The project addresses the questions of (a) whether and to what extent sports clubs are "schools of
democracy" and "producers of social capital" that bundle and strengthen democratic and socially integrative
attitudes, and (b) whether and to what extent sports clubs produce "antisocial capital" and specifically
promote right-wing extremist and anti-human attitudes. In doing so, we will (b) systematically take into
account the conditioning factors for corresponding attitudes at the individual and club level in order to be
able to uncover systematic connections between conditions in the clubs and members' attitudes. The
findings can (c) contribute to the empirical and theoretical sharpening of complex attitude constructs and
syndromes (such as right-wing extremism or misanthropy) and (d) develop recommendations for action at
the sports club and association level to strengthen club structures and cultures that promote democracy,
are socially integrative and open, not exclusionary. On the basis of a nationally representative population
survey of young people and adults as well as an "oversampling" of sports club members, reliable
statements can be made about the attitudes addressed in the call for proposals. This will enable both
differentiated statements about specific groups of sports club members (e.g. voluntary, honorary and fulltime
members) and comparisons with the population as a whole, taking into account individual and
structural conditional factors. The discussions on sports clubs as democratically constituted voluntary
associations, on the socially integrative, community-building functions of sports clubs as well as on
misanthropy and the devaluation and exclusion of social groups in sports clubs, which have so far been
conducted rather independently of each other, are discussed in a complex context and underpinned with
empirical results.