从20世纪中期,“现代化”这一术语开始进入人民的视野。人们常常用现代化来说明从农业社会向工业社会的转变过程。学术界也开始致力于现代化理论的研究,常常把现代化理论看作是关于世界、国家和地区现代化特点和规律的研究成果的统称。在国家的各项建设领域迈向现代化的大背景下,体育作为社会现代化进程的一个重要组成部分,不可避免的发生着深刻的变化,即由传统的体育迈向现代化体育的过程。因此,本文对涉及体育现代化的相关问题进行研究,旨在弄清楚体育现代化“是什么”的问题。 From the mid-20th century, the term “modernization” began to enter the people’s perspective. People often use modernization to illustrate the process from agricultural society to industrial society. Academics have also begun to devote themselves to the study of modernization theory. They often regard modernization theory as a general term for the research results on the characteristics and laws of modernization of the world, the country and the region. Under the background of the various construction fields in our country moving towards modernization, as an important part of the process of social modernization, sport inevitably undergoes profound changes, that is, the process from the traditional sports to the modern sports. Therefore, this paper studies the related issues related to the modernization of sports in order to clarify the issue of “what is” of sports modernization.