The Historical Establishment Process of Career Choices of Sports Scholarship Students

スポーツ　ヲ　トオシタ　シンロ　センタク　ノ　レキシテキ　セイリツ　カテイ　ニ　カンスル　イチコウサツ

タカダ, シュンスケ

Takada, Shunsuke

オオサカ ダイガク ダイガクイン ニンゲン カガク ケンキュウカ キョウイクガクケイ

Department of Education, Graduate School of Human Sciences, Osaka University

Through a scouting scandal in which two amateur baseball players were paid money under the table by a professional baseball team in 2007, the existence of the baseball student became obvious. A baseball scholarship student results when a good baseball player is exempted from school expenses or is supported by a scholarship. Unlike European sports culture, which has developed through centering on the local community, Japanese sports culture has been growing based on school education. Therefore, it can be said that the career choices of sports scholarship students are phenomena that are peculiar to the case of Japan. The purpose of this article is to clarify the historical establishment process of sports scholarship students through surveying the transition period of Japanese sports from the reception of modern sports to its advanced development. In regards to method, this article bases its research on the concept of “body capital” (Shilling 1993), and analyzes the transition of body capital from the period of production to conversion. As a result, this study clarified that the body capital, which is cultivated by sports, has gradually developed into several other capitals through transforming “Bushido Baseball,” which aimed to nurture the elite at the time of the Meiji period, into “Koshien Baseball,” which was formed by the mass media.