Sociological analysis of the social capital of football players and its effect on professional ethics with the approach of performance and importance analysis.

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1 PhD student in the field of sport s sociology , science and research department, , Islamic Azad University , Tehran, Iran

2 Associate Professor, Department of Sociology of Sport, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran

3 professor azad university

10.22059/jscm.2024.370537.2484

Abstract

This article was done with the aim of sociological analysis of the social capital of football players and its impact on professional ethics. This study is applied-developmental in terms of purpose and survey-cross-sectional in terms of data collection method. The community of participants of the qualitative part includes 35 prominent players of the country's premier league, who were selected by theoretical sampling. The sample size of the quantitative part was also estimated by the effect size and test power method of 155 people and the sampling was done by cluster-random method. A semi-structured interview and a researcher-made questionnaire were used to collect data. Data analysis was done in the qualitative part with the grounded theory method in Maxqda software and in the quantitative part by the importance-performance analysis method in SPSS software. The research findings showed that empowering players, creating culture in the club, monitoring the holding of official matches and the premier league are the causal factors that affect the social capital of football players. Social capital, by influencing professional ethics, ultimately leads to the growth and success of football in the country. Based on the analysis of the importance of performance, the constructs of "monitoring the holding of matches", "players' mental concerns" and "material problems and issues" are in the "weakness" area, and the distance between these constructs is significant.

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Social Capital Management

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Available Online from 09 June 2024

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