Sport and Historical Sociology- Lecture 2 Flashcards
What is the “great sports myth” and how has it been contradicted through history?
The idea that sports are pure and good and participation in such sports will improve character.
Reinforcement of gender inequalities, racial ideologies and racial stacking.
What did Polley and Skillen state about sport history?
(2016)
“Sports are linked to the times and places they are played”
Historical Sport History= dispel myths eg: William Webb Ellis created the game of Rugby
What are the key ideals within Sport in Ancient Greece?
776BC
Based around religious ceremonies and the gods (Zeus)
Reinvented in the Modern Olympic Games (Pierre De Coubertin)
The Pankration= very violent, a mix of wrestling and boxing= translates to ‘all force”
Violence reflects the wider society
What are the key ideals within Sport in The Romans?
Roman Games= gladiatorial battles and chariot battles
Became democratised and spectatorialised as a political display within society
What are the key ideals within Sport in Medieval Europe?
500-1500 AD
Based on the upper class and the values/ concept of knighthood
Archery= MC/UC
Folk games= mob football and violence
What was stated in the source “Barbarians, Gentleman and Players” Eric Dunning (1979)
“Folk games were simple, unwritten rules, and were informally structured”
Physical force > Skill and Technique
What are the key ideals with Sport in Modernity?
1700’s to now
Beginnings in cricket, golf, fox hunting, boxing
Golf= emerged in Edi
Boxing= emerged in London
NORBERT ELIAS?
The concept of sportization and parlimentarization
Sportization is the term used by Elias to describe the process by which folk games became transformed into their modern sport forms
More specifically the sportization process involves the development of more precise and explicit rules, which are written down and enforced in a stricter and more efficient way.
How would you describe the process of parlimentarisation?
Parallel to sportization in shaping sports.
The ‘parliamentarization of political conflict’
The beginning of the eighteenth century saw the development of relatively peaceful means for deciding political issues in England with, for example, the development of parliamentary rules, high levels of mutual trust, and mechanisms for the peaceful transference of power between political parties.
The dominant class of English landowners formed both political clubs and sports clubs and hence the Jockey Club and the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) became the national governing bodies for horse-racing and cricket respectively.
