Conceptualising Sport, Science and Society Flashcards
Title of SPEX 101 paper
Sport, Science and Society
Illusions of sports arrows
illusions/myths impacts facts and reality and people values, behaviours etc
Paradigms
someones view/perspective
C. Wright Mills view on how we see the world
we need to connect private experience with wider social structures, personal problems with public issues
in other words we need to look at the world from different views
Why study sport (8)
- history
- is a business
- popular
- promote language and culture
- a social problem and solution
- avoid cultural bias
- funding
- research
Sport GDP
contributes 2.8% or equal to the dairy sector and $5.2billion dollars
The Great Sports Myth
sport is inherently pure and good
the purity and goodness of sport is transmitted to those who play or consume it
sport always leads to individual and community development
= GSM
Challenges of studying sport
- GSM = good
- not taken seriously
- everybody is an expert
- not one like when sport it critiqued
- people are jealous of sport
- sport exceptionalism
Sport Exceptionalism
assumptions that creates a belief that sport is essential for society
eg. covid and tokyo
Sport Definiton (5)
goal directed
accepted rules
institutionalised
physical skill
prowess
Why does the definition of sport matter
- concepts for research
- avoiding cultural bias
- funding
Contested Terrain
different groups fighting, not just over space, but about ideas a beliefs
Contested Terrain and Women in sport in the early days
18/19th Century: the working class women had to time or money to play sport so only the middle and upper class women played sport, yet they still had restrictions
Donnelley’s Reading: Categories of Resistance Through Sport
- self conscious political protests
- opposition to colonial rule
- cultural opposition/resistance
Self Conscious Political Protest
- protesting
using big sport moments to make a political statement - olympics and the cost to run them
- homelessness
Opposition to colonial rule
Cricket is a colonised sport that was brought to Trobriand Island however they transformed the sport to their own adaption and mock the british
Cultural opposition/resistance example
alternative sports
Hegemony
a form of power that operated through consent verus coercion
(free will to participate instead of forced)