Bildend und gebildet. Untersuchung zur Sozialstruktur des Amateurfußballs

This article focuses on the example of amateur football to explore the connection between institutional educational socialisation, athletic prowess and habitual educational processes. Involvement in upper-level secondary educational requirements helps create a personality structure which generally speaking is marked by a positive attitude towards performance and which creates a positive linkage between the personal skills acquired and recognition afforded in the educational process in specific fields such as football and personal identity and is able to transform these into general personal skills. Education and football form a constructive relationship.