Strzelectwo sportowe w Zachodniopomorskiem – socjo-demograficzna charakterystyka i profil aktywności strzelca sportowego

Abstract

This article discusses the empirical data obtained from the study on the sport shooters in the Zachodniopomorskie Voivodship. The authors describe this sports discipline and the community of shooters in West Pomerania, including the procedures of acquiring sports qualifications, and the activity of the sports clubs and their associations. The discussed results include the socio-demographic characteristics of a sport shooter, the sports events, the expenditures incurred for sports, and motivation to go in for sports. The authors consider the activity of the sport shooters in the context of repeatedly diagnosed unsatisfactory condition of the civic society, and the discussion, recurring in the public sphere, on the access to firearms.

Keywords

• sociology of sport
• organizational sociology
• shooting sports
• access to firearms
• civil society