pe - social/cultural Flashcards
Social
The community that someone is in
Cultural
Set of beliefs and customs that leads us to behave in a particular way with our community
Social class - Pre-industrial Britain
Lower Class - Peasants:
- Worked manually mainly on the land
- Activities such as mob football, dog fighting, cock fighting and bare knuckle fighting
- Often cruel and violent, had little to no rules
Upper class - Gentry:
- Aristocracy (rulers) were hereditary land owners
- Activities included real tennis and fox hunting
- Activities were more sophisticated with complex rules
- Participation required money
Pedestrianism and Cricket - Pre-industrial Britain
Pedestrianism: Peasants would compete in the races and the gentry would act as patrons (sponsor) they would bet on the results
Cricket: Gentry would employ peasants who were good at cricket as gardeners so they could play for their cricket team. Upper class were known as gentlemen and lower class as players. Professionals just fielded and they were not allowed to bat
Time - Pre-industrial Britain
Peasants:
- Worked long, exhausting hours
- Often too tired to participate in physical activities
- Many activities only happened once a year e.g. festivals
- Most activities involved drinking competitions/throwing
- Simple and no real rules
Gentry:
- Much more spare time - activities longer-lasting
-They could last all day long
Money - Pre-industrial Britain
Peasants:
- Couldn’t afford specialist equipment
- Couldn’t take part in exclusive sports
- Couldn’t afford to leave their communities
- Loss of animals/crops would be devastating
Gentry:
- Could afford horses/specialist clothing - hunting
- Real tennis was played indoors in stately homes
- Uses expensive/specialist equipment
Transport - Pre-industrial Britain
Peasants:
- Roads in terrible conditions
- Had to rely on walking
- Often couldn’t leave their immediate villages
- Led to different villages having different rules
Gentry:
- Could travel further via horse and carriage
- Could get to different facilities
- Able to buy facilities within their own lands
Law and Order - Pre-industrial Britain
Peasants:
- Took part in violent/cruel activities
- Mob football only stopped murder and man slaughter
- There was no police at the time
Gentry:
- Interested in keeping up appearances
- Would only take part in respectful activities
Education - Pre-industrial Britain
Peasants:
- Uneducated and illiterate
- Activities had to be simple
- Often no rules - couldn’t be written down/ understood
Gentry:
- Educated and literate
- They could read and understand sophisticated rules
Gender - Pre-industrial Britain
Peasant women:
- Seen as the weaker sex
- Activities could not be dangerous/strenuous
- Very few rights/choices in society
- Smock races
Gentry women:
- Participated in different activities to men
- Few rights in society
- May be involved in archery
Social class - Post-industrial Britain
Working Class:
- Worked long hours in factories/mines
- Little wealth/status
- No disposable income
Middle-Class:
- Factory managers
- Didn’t own big estates
- Many had more time/money
- Educated ones were a threat to the upper class
Upper-Class:
- Hereditary land owners
- had disposable income
- All educated
Broken time payments - Post-industrial Britain
Given payments to play as professionals to make up for lost money for not being at work
Time- Post-industrial Britain
- Factory owners didn’t want workers playing sport due to money loss for injury etc.
- Soon realised it has healthy and encouraged teamwork
- Working hours were still long so they had little energy to play sport
- 1880s onwards, Saturday half day
Money - Post-industrial Britain
- Working class still paid poorly, could not afford to participate in much sport
- Broken time payments and professionalism encouraged people to take part
- Middle/upper class could afford to play
- Factory owners realised that a happy workforce is a more productive workforce
- Larger factories would pay for an annual trip for the workers e.g. to the beach so that they were able to take part in more activities
Transport - Post-industrial Britain
- Canals/roads made it easier for people to travel much greater distances
- Invention of the bicycle meant more travel
- Trams were very important as they allowed people to travel all over the country and Scotland/Wales so fixtures and matches could be played all over and spectators could go with them
Women - Post-industrial Britain
Start of 19th century:
- Restricted by their roles (housewives)
- Dependant on husband - need to marry
- Many thought education was pointless
- Most professions refused entry for women
End of the 19th century:
- Women could not be expected to marry, shortage often due to the war
- Series of female education pioneers
- Led to a wide movement of women’s rights, work and voting this led to more taking part in PE in school
Education (working class) - Post-industrial Britain
- Most had little interest in education
- Child labour was common but most parent didn’t want their children to go to school because it would reduce their income as children often worked
- Uneducated people did not get complex rules
- Education act 1870: Beginning of the national system of state education. It required new elementary schools nationwide (usually run by churches)
- Since this, more people got involved in sport as they could understand more complex rules
Education (upper class) - Post-industrial Britain
- Had little interest in educating the peasants, they wanted to remain in power
- Revolutions across Europe hardened the need to control the working class
- Middle/upper class when to public (private) schools
19th century public schools:
- Exclusive to the sons of the gentry
- Strict boarding schools - lots of rules
- Housing system (pastoral care) in houses
- High fees, academic staff, good facilities
- Boys brought their local games and rules
- One set of rules were clarified
- Lots of time and space to play (large grounds)
- Very strict and bullying
- High tuition fees
- Fagging system
Fagging system
Cruel exploitation of younger boys who were used as servants for the older boys, often bullied and many parents complained about this behaviour
Cult of athleticism
Idea of ‘muscular christianity’ linked sport with being a Christian gentleman. Established a link between sport and moral ethic character. Combination of physical endeavour or trying hard and more integrity, being an honourable sportsman
Law and order - Post-industrial Britain
Working class:
- More defined rules effected their activities
- Led to a decline in blood sports e.g. fighting as well as mob football. They were not ‘acceptable’
- Began to play against others - more educated
Upper class:
- They were the law makers so they could keep the sports they enjoyed such as hunting
- Although some of these were deemed as cruel and the working class had no say
- Still a power divide, upper class dictated how the working class lived their lives
Change in the 20th century
- Science and technology innovations
- Societies became richer
- Growth in cities (urbanisation)
- More leisure time/less work
- Sport included in national curriculum
- Stress due to wars and terriorism
Social class
- Still influenced society
- Divisions were more vague
- Those who watched football were mostly well behaved
Time 20th century
- People gradually had more time
- Weekly features (Saturday 3pm) creation of leagues
- Water polo and pigeon racing now played/watched
Little space in cities so sports fields were used lots
Money 20th century
- Increased in all social classes - more opportunities
- Everyone began to play/spectate in sport
- During war years, this money disappeared
Transport 20th century
- War invented motor bikes, cars and planes
- Mass increase in public/private transport - available to almost everyone
- Increase in participation and spectators
- World cups/Olympic Games involved international travel - brought tourism and money
Gender
- Sport still entered around the pub
- Sport - male dominated
- Spectatorism increased
- Middle class women played sport for leisure
- Women excluded from professional sport in the first half of the century until 1960s onwards
Spectatorism: Practice of being an on-looker at sports games (forepeople spectating than participating)
Education 20th century
Grammer schools:
- Selective students from public schools 11+
- Academically gifted
- Catered for those going beyond O-levels/GCEs
Secondary modern schools:
- 4 year course
- Led to ‘school leaving certificate’
- After pupils went straight into work
- Extra year was introduced for 5th year
Secondary technical schools:
- Less popular alternative
- Those failing 11+ could gain a place here
- Courses developed skills e.g. woodwork/mechanics
Law 20th century
- Most cruel sports banned (urbanisation)
- Exceptions: Fox hunting/shooting (upper class)
- Formal written rules for fair play
- Boxers now wore gloves/banned biting
- Large crowds were respectful/well behaved until 1970
- 1960s - drug use became widely used especially USSR
Hooliganism: Disruptive/unlawful behaviour e.g. rioting, bullying and vandalism in connection with crowds
Social class 21st century
- Still impacted participation rates in sport but much less obviously than before
- Social mobility could be achieved through sport
Time 21st century
- Technological advances and more flexible working conditions, people had more time for sport
- 5 day working week is now common, people could engage with sports at weekends
Money 21st century
- Most people are better off
- Gym memberships increased - more affordable
- Global recession early 2000s effected people’s disposable income - less spent on sport
Transport 21st century
- Availability increased massively
- Households had at least one car
- People willing to travel to play/spectate
- Increased cheap air fares - more abroad travel
Gender 21st century
- More men than women involved in sport
- Some still regarded sport as ‘unfeminine’
- Certain activities associated with one gender
- More women involved in physical exercise particularly in health fitness and gym
- Participation in team sports grew massively
- Women’s large events became more televised
- Fewer instances of open discrimination in sport
Education 21st century
- Examinations/qualifications in PE increased e.g. GCSE, A-level, Cambridge nationals, degrees
- Gave young people opportunities to study PE
- 88% of pupils attended comprehensive schools
- 7% private schools
- 4% grammer schools
- 1/3 Britain Rio medalists attended private schools
Law 21st century
- Officials have duty of care to player’s safety
- All seater stadiums
- Violence was likely legally followed up
- Football banning orders to prevent trouble from attending games or travelling abroad
- Players protected by legal contracts
- Stricter laws/more severe sanctions
Hillsbrough: Pens overfilled, tickets were not checked, the barriers broke and people fell forwards leading to 97 spectators dying
Equality 21st century
- Laws to prevent discrimination based on race/gender
- Right for transgenders 2004
- Private members clubs could not longer ban women
- Discrimination legislation covering race, gender, disability, age, sexual orientation and religion 2010 equality laws
Bosman ruling
Players allowed to leave club at the end of their contract without paying a transfer fee
Match-fixing
Act of playing/officiating match with intention of achieving a pre-determined result
Doping
Use of banned athletic performance enhancing drugs in athletic competition
Olympics origin
- 3000 years ago - Ancient Greece
- 776BC
- Reason for starting them was unknown
- Olympiad - 4 year gap between games
- First of modern era - Athens 1896
Aims/Values of olympics
Aims:
- Provide healthy competition and avoid politics with emphasis on taking part instead of winning
- Promote development, physical and moral qualities to create international goodwill and educate young people
3 Values:
- Preserve human dignity
- Develop harmony
- Encourage effort
British Olympic Association (BOA)
- Role - prepare best of British athletes for the summer and winter games
- Responsible for campaigning Olympic values in UK
- Privately funded
- Headquarters - London
International Olympic Committee (IOC)
- Role - Supervise, support and monitor organisation of games to ensure they run smoothly
- Guardian of Olympic games
- Responsible for selecting host city
- Owns all right of olympics symbol and name