ABSTRACT
In November 1987 an international meeting at the University of Rennes (Brittany) assembled scholars who study sport and body culture from seven European countries. Among them were ten Danes. It seems to have been the first time that Danish research on the social and cultural aspects of sports had been presented collectively for a public outside Scandinavia. Although the Danish scholars came from different institutions-the University of Odense (Institute of Sports), the University of Copenhagen (Institute of Cultural Sociology), the Danish State Institute of Physical Education in Copenhagen and the Institute of Sport Research in Gerlev-they represented a fairly coherent body of knowledge and of perspective, creating in the foreign audience the impression of a ‘Danish School’ of sports research.
