PAPER 3 - Sport and Society Flashcards
What are the characteristics of POPULAR RECREATION ?
Never Love Cruel Overweight CROWS
Natural Local Cruel Occasional Courtly Rural Occupational Wagering Simple
What are the characteristics of RATIONAL RECREATION ?
Read Carefully Read Fairly Read Everything Until Absolute Perfect Comprehension
Regional Codification Respectable Fair play Regular Exclusive Urban Amateurism Purpose built facilities Control of Gambling
What is POPULAR RECREATION ?
PRE-INDUSTRIAL sports and pastime mainly associated with the LOWER CLASS. Reflects the society, life and time in which it exists.
PRE INDUSTRIAL : SOCIAL CLASS
2 classes
UPPER CLASS = sophisticated, complex rules, require time and money - real tennis, fox hunting
LOWER CLASS = simple, few rules, violent - mob football
BOTH = pedestrianism - lower class = competed, upper class = patrons
Where did PEDESTRIANISM stem from ?
occupation of the lower class - footmen - make sure carriages didn’t overturn on the rough track
What is PEDESTRIANISM ?
a form of nineteenth-century competitive walking
PRE-INDUSTRIAL : GENDER
- women participated events
- shaped by the expected behaviour
- ‘weaker sex’
- LC = few rights
What sports event did UC women compete in - pre-industrial ?
archery
What sports event did LC women compete in - pre-industrial ?
smock race
PRE-INDUSTRIAL : LAW AND ORDER
- not many formal laws
- LC = violent sports - bare knuckled fighting
What did the 1829 Metropolitan Police Act create ?
modern police force through the actions of the Home Secretary - Sir Robert Peel
PRE-INDUSTRIAL : TIME AND MONEY
UPPER CLASS:
- more time and money
- longer lasting events
- afford equipment / transport / facilities
- fox hunting
LOWER CLASS
- long hours labouring land
- confined to holy days
- short duration
- localised
- throwing contest
PRE-INDUSTRIAL : EDUCATION
UPPER CLASS:
- educated
- understand rules of complex sports
- real tennis
LOWER CLASS:
- uneducated / illiterate
- mob football
PRE-INDUSTRIAL : TRANSPORT
UPPER CLASS:
- horse and cart
- more opportunities
- longer lasting
- facilities
LOWER CLASS:
- no transport
- local
- short