Italian sport was for a long time considered by the liberal élites, the fascist regime and the pro-catholic or pro-left mass organizations themselves as a powerful means of social control. Only the growth of a self-managed sport movement during the last twenty years encouraged the sociological research to investigate the new social culture of body and game, the role of sport in a pervasive media-system, the Italian football hooliganism. The article draws a brief outline of these studies.
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