El deporte como fenómeno social: un análisis crítico a partir del contexto global y local

Historically, sport has evolved from survival practices to become part of today's cultural dynamics. This type of activity promotes positive values and integrates individuals within the community, improving their quality of life and facilitating intercultural encounters. By virtue of the above, the article, of documentary exploration and adequate to the guidelines of the qualitative paradigm, analyzes how sport is interconnected to different social problems, while proposing possible solutions for them. Among the main findings, it is highlighted that sport has gone through different meanings, such as the one contained in the economicist vision, as a producer of means and services at the service of globalization, present in the global context and within Latin America and the Caribbean. Despite this, sport has served as a tool for social inclusion, to improve the quality of life of vulnerable sectors, generating physical and emotional well-being in individuals. With regard to Colombian society, the relationship it has with modernization and the massification of sports activities is specified. It is concluded that sport is an instrument of development and intervention to improve the quality of life of individuals.