Study of football social responsibility in Iran with Fuzzy cognitive mapping approach

Abstract

Considering the increasing importance of social activities in sports, the aim of this study was to design a model of football social responsibility in Iran with a fuzzy cognitive mapping approach. For this purpose the data was collected by 13 in-depth interviews with experts in the field of football social studies in Iran selected through purposive and snowball sampling. By substantive and theoretical coding of interviews, the concepts of football social responsibility were identified and defined. The results showed football social responsibility in Iran includes 8 dimensions of moral, cultural, legal, socio-economic, transparency, benevolently, knowledge and socio-environmental responsibility. Examining the causal relationships between the blocks indicates that moral responsibility has the highest number of effective relationships. Also, the effect of moral responsibility on legal responsibility and transparency responsibility was more important than other relationships. Thus the concept of social responsibility of football can be considered from a broader perspective.