hoshang zamani; kamal Javanmard; mohammadreza akhzarian kashani
Abstract
The research is to explain the role of sports on political authority. It was practical in terms of purpose and mixed in terms of method. In the qualitative part, the classical grounded theory method was used. The statistical population in the qualitative section was 30 members of the Islamic Republic ...
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The research is to explain the role of sports on political authority. It was practical in terms of purpose and mixed in terms of method. In the qualitative part, the classical grounded theory method was used. The statistical population in the qualitative section was 30 members of the Islamic Republic of Japan's 2020 Olympic delegation and sports experts. The sample size in this research was continued until conceptual saturation and the purposeful sampling method was used. In the quantitative part, the statistical population were 320 people that 143 people from the delegation of athletes sent to the Olympic Games were selected based on Morgan's table. The data analyzed using the available sampling method, a researcher-made questionnaire with spss software version 22 and regression test.
The findings obtained in the qualitative section include 178 codes, 23 core codes and 6 selective codes. The research findings in the quantitative section showed that sport influence Iran's political authority through the components of sports influence, sports diplomacy, legitimacy, intelligent power, legal authority and sports dominance. As a result, among the calculated components, the components of legal authority and sports influence have played the most important role in this process.
