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Ryskin P.P. [Features of self-identification of professional athletes in modern Russia] World of Science. Series: Sociology, Philology, Cultural Studies, 2019, Vol. 10, No. 1. Available at: https://sfk-mn.ru/PDF/15SCSK119.pdf (in Russian).

Features of self-identification of professional athletes in modern Russia

Ryskin Petr Petrovich
Ural state university of economics, Yekaterinburg, Russia
E-mail: post-1816@yandex.ru

Abstract. The relevance of the article is due to the need to determine the social attitudes of professional athletes. Professional sport, in contrast to physical culture and mass sports, is considered to be an individual’s work activity aimed at “the production of sporting achievements”. Consequently, a professional athlete does not just get a sports result in a competitive fight, but produces a sports result, which is then “consumed” by society. These aspects significantly affect the processes of self-identification of professional athletes.

The purpose of this article is to study the attitude of athletes to the issues of motivating «high achievements» in the framework of the development of professional sports in Russia. Diagnostics of relations established in professional sports allows you to look at the existing system of relations from the point of view of an athlete.

As the main research method, a multistage survey was chosen. The study allows us to conclude that Russian athletes evaluate the positive dynamics of the status of their activities, supported by a significant level of remuneration. The study presented in the article showed that in most cases a professional athlete is not able to independently design and implement his life strategy, because he lacks the necessary communication skills. Within the framework of the institute of professional sports, social “inability” is literally cultivated, since life independence and the strategic (adaptive, socially viable) personality warehouse of a professional athlete allegedly “prevent him from concentrating on producing a sports result”.

The author concludes that the nature of self-identification of professional athletes is due to a pronounced «social infantilism», which is understood as a lack of knowledge and experience of an extra-sporting nature, which would provide him with the opportunity to improve in society in a different socio-professional status.

Keywords: professional sport; athletes’ sources of income; self-identification; motivation; social infantilism; athletic performance; high performance sport

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