Socialization through Sports Participation: A Systematic Review

This study was conducted to examine various studies aimed at socializing via sports participation through a systematic review of the evidence. In this study, all published internal and external papers after 2000 related to socialization through sports participation were analyzed. In the initial search of a total of 10938 research papers in internal and external bases, the articles that were included in the study were evaluated in terms of quality using the checklist, 42 articles were cited and categorized in the context of socialization through sports participation and entered the data analysis stage. The results showed most of the internal studies were centered on Tehran, and foreign studies were conducted with the focus of the United States, Turkey, Netherlands and Romania. The amount of attention to research on socialization has increased in internal papers from 1390 and in foreign articles since 2010. Many researchers have written their article according to the symbolic reciprocal viewpoint, and the largest statistical population of the research was the students. Research results showed that important factors such as family, school institution, systematic propaganda of public and private media, religious institution, government policies, available facilities and economic and social base in sporting system participation have been affected. Finally, it can be concluded that the absence of an appropriate pattern in the context of socialization through sport in internal and external studies is more than ever felt by many social groups that many scholars need to pay attention to this subject matter.