EiS-L

The research project follows on from the 2024 project "Socio-political attitudes in organised sport", which is empirically based on a nationally representative population survey. The available cross-sectional dataset, still offers informative further analytical perspectives. The first aim of the proposed research project is to conduct further analyses on the following questions: What is the meaning of club culture? What types of attitudes can be identified among sports club members? Are there meaningful differences in attitudes between East and West Germany? Is there measurement equivalence between general and sport specific scales of racism and sexism? The second aim of the research project is to conduct and analyse a longitudinal sample to identify causal relationships between selected socio-political attitudes and club membership. Previous analyses of the cross-sectional dataset have shown that for some attitudes, the differences between sports club members and non-club members are very robust, even in complex analyses. The planned population survey should help to answer the question of whether differences between sports club members and non-members, or between passive and voluntary club members, can be interpreted as socialisation or selection effects. With a time lag of about one year to the present survey, it will be possible to use the panel data to estimate the extent to which individuals are more likely to join, volunteer in, and leave clubs based on their socio-political attitudes, or whether joining, volunteering in, and leaving clubs influence people's socio-political attitudes.