Sport omnivorism: Social stratification of sports practice in Chile
Abstract
Using Chan and Goldthorpe's theoretical framework of cultural consumption, this study analyses the patterns of social stratification in sports practice in Chile. Based on the data of the National Survey of Physical Activity and Sports Habits in the Population Aged 18 and Over 2015 in Chile (n= 5511), a latent class analysis was used to identify and characterize types of sports practice in this country. After this, logistic and multinomial regressions were performed to relate the types of sports practice found and its social determinants. The results support current literature in sports participation, finding evidence in favour of both the homology hypothesis and omnivorous-univorous hypothesis. However, in the same way as previous studies, it is shown that these arguments are reconfigured in the field of sport.
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Keywords
age, Chile, gender, latent class analysis, omnivorousness, social class, social stratification, sociology of culture, sociology of sport, sports practice