Sport and Society Flashcards

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Gender discrimination

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  • stereotypical views
  • discriminatory attitudes
  • lack of media coverage
  • sexploitation
  • underfunding
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Racial discrimination

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  • racial stacking
  • less black athletes employed in sport after career
  • lack of role models
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Disability in sport

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  • 9% disability in sport 23% without disability
  • lack of media coverage, lack of role models
  • lack of facilities/specialist coaching
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Class in sport

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  • Football working class
  • Rugby split working and middle
  • Golf not spectacle but high broadcast and lots of money involved - Wealthy powerful people interested in sport promoted
  • Working class limited
  • Geographic accessibility
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Race/ Ethnicity

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Race = Physical characteristics
Ethnicity = Cultural heritage

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Strategies for improving female participation

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  • This Girl Can: Sport England and lottery funded promote sport for ALL women
  • Us Girls: partnered with StreetGames promote sport deprived communities
  • Womens Sports Trust: partnered with Sky Sports to ‘show up’ to women events
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Strategies for racial discrimination

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  • Rooney rule: 1 black candidates interviewed improved diverse of coaches in NFL
  • Kick it out: app report discrimination at football ground
  • No room for racism: players take the knee
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Strategy for disability

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Sport England aims to improve number of people with disability in sport including accessibility facilities and coaching

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Increased female participation

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  • Increased media coverage
  • Societal norms changed
  • More funding
  • Women’s only section
  • Campaigns
  • Influencers
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Golden triangle fans advantages

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  • Higher standards of performances
  • Increased access watch live sport
  • High quality of stadiums
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Golden triangle fans disadvantages

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  • Longer breaks
  • Time changes
  • Subscriptions
  • Sports aren’t popular less funding
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Golden triangle athlete advantages

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  • More competitions
  • Increased profile sponsorships
  • Higher quality stadiums
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Golden triangle athlete disadvantages

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  • Increased pressure
  • Lack of control financial rewards
  • Lack of privacy
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Golden triangle media

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  • Increased audience
  • Sport high profile
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Golden triangle sponsorship

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  • Awareness brand product
  • Positive image and good reputation
  • Increased sales
  • Reduced tax due to tax relief
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Americanisation of sport (seen as business)

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  • 19th century American baseball matches advertising sold on cards
  • Sale of TV rights major source funding
  • Sponsorship
  • Broadcasting rights NFL $11.5 billion yearly
  • Sport as event e.g. half time entertainment
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Globalisation

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  • organisations international influence operate internationally
  • more media coverage, financial support, accessible
  • athletes travel
  • more exposure, more elite athletes, greater talent identification
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Levels of globalisation

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Global sporting comp: Premier League, IPL, NBA played UK, worldwide sponsors

Satellite communication: live

Sporting good: evolution sport brands Jordan

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Consequences of globalisation

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  • leave countries earlier, play for that country
  • decreases talent pool & chance of developing countries becoming competitive
  • athletes in news as role models, increase revenue and sponsors but lack privacy
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Commercialisation

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Process of managing something for financial gain

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Consumerism

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Promotion of consumer interests

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Americanisation

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Making something American

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Globalisation

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Process organisation’s international influence or operate internationally

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Social stratification

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Unequal layers factors such as income education

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Discrimination

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Negative perception of group creates distinction

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Stereotype

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Preconceived perception

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Prejudice

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Previously formed opinion no evidence to back it up

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Equal opportunity

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Fairly with no form of discrimination preventing them from participation

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Self fulfilling prophecy

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Fuelling stereotypes and prejudice athletes follow these social expectations

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Social mobility

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Sport route for this
Success creates more role models
Breaks barriers

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Stage 1

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  • Pre 19th century
  • Boy organised sports themselves
  • Rules came from villages
  • Different versions
  • Unruly gambling drinking
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Stage 2

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  • Early 19th century
  • Thomas Arnold reduce d/g and develop muscular Christianity and moral integrity
  • sixth form students responsible for organising
  • house games on school grounds
  • fagging system discipline younger students
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Stage 3

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  • Late 19th century
  • develop characteristics after education (teamwork/leadership)
  • purpose built facilities (public swimming pools)
  • factory owners created teams workers played in
  • players start to get paid to play
  • increase health and productivity of workers
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Development of sport preindustrial Britain

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Transport
British empire
Churches
Oxbridge melting pot

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Transport

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Increased transportation lines travel greater distances - increasing range and appeal - lead leagues and comp - generates interest in spectating and supporting - reporters make timings aware

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British empire

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Colonisation and export of British customs through public school boys joining military sport spread idea and concepts around the world

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Churches

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Encouraged rational recreation
Former public school boys worked at churches as ministers to help spread muscular Christianity

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Oxbridge melting pot

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Public school boys from variety schools different rules to uni allowed consensus of rules until there was codification of sports and formation of governing bodies

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Athleticism in girls school

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  • Traditional role women saw education threat
  • Anxiety over wearing revealing clothes
  • Not considered necessary for same opportunity
  • Unladylike competitive
  • Medical concerns strenuous activity prohibit child bearing
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19th century amateurs

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Upper class public school
Formed national governing bodies
No monetary rewards
Amateur ethos
Athleticism - moral integrity
Sportsmanship - inside unwritten

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19th century professionals

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Working class
Received payment ‘broken time’
Lombardian ethic
Cheating
Gamesmanship- outside unwritten rules

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Amateurs now

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Still don’t get monetary rewards (olympics)
Love of game (boxers w/o pay)
Physical endeavour
High moral code
Sportsmanship

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Professionals now

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Increased wages players commercials
Ictaesed standars
Increased media coverage
Increased pressure to win
Cheating
Gamesmanship

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Amateurism to professionalism football

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After fa formation amateurs(upper) and professionals played
More teams and comps more interest
Clubs generate income ticket sales
More games prof need more time off
Allowed full professionalism

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Amateurism to professionalism cricket

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1870s developed touring - county sport
Increased interest
Length of games prof long time off work
Counties accept professional
Professional accepted different eating and travel from amateurs
Class diff highlighted annual p v a game

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Modern Olympic Games

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Pierre de Coubertin founder International Olympic Committee (1984)
First modern day olympics 1896
Fair play sportsmanship amateurism
Love of sport not money
Amateurs allowed not professionals

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Positive deviance

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Moving away from norm without intention to do harm send positively
Playing injured
Train so hard they injure

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Negative deviance

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Knowing behaves in a way breaks ethics
PEDs
Bribes
Hoolagnism

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Types of PEDS

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Steroids - train longer harder
Stimulants - more alert
Diuretic - hide use of other PEDs
Narcotic - mask injury
EPO - aerobic performance
Beta blocker - reduce heart rate

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Reason for using PEDS

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Increased success
More sponsorship
Leads to intangible rewards

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Combatting doping

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1988 WADA
2013 Lance Armstrong banned for doping
- Testing and Biological Passport

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Testing

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Doling tested mass spectrometry
Urine sample beam of electrons
Each substance unique fingerprint
By products too small to produce signal

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Biological passport

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2009 WADA brough BP
Electronic document bio info
Monitor change alert officials
Doubt around effects of training
Every test developed to detect, latest PED 10 years ahead

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Sports Performance Pyramid

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Elite
Performance
Participation
Foundation

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Foundation

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Grass roots
Younger children don’t understand rules develop skills

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Participation

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Participates sport regularly
Gain something positive (enjoyment, socialising)

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Performance

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Aims to improve skill
Playing for team review coaching
Demonstrates skills associated elite

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Elite

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Highly skilled
Aimed to acheive set standards through comp
Both professional and high level amateurs

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Factors affecting participation

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Individual differences
Family
Friends
Education
Tradition (mob football,cheese rolling)
Age (older green crown bowling)
Provision
Media (wimbledon)

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Talent identification

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  • Sport organisations identify potential talent, supportive pathways
  • National framework for sport between UK sport, Uk sport instructions and National governing bodies
  • Developed to identify talent and fast track development programmes
  • Skill based testing, functional movement, psychological and performance lifestyle
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Advantages of centralised system of talent identifications

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Reduces cost
Culture excellency
Improved facilities
More success more role models
Showcase country

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Disadvantages of centralised system of talent identifications

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Unhealthy environment
Not appropriate for all to relocate
Expensive
Long term health issues - overtraining

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World Class Performance Pathway

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Funded through national lottery
Aim to win medals international
World class talent - highly gifted selected by NGBS 8 years from likely medal
development - 6 years from a medal
podium - likely medal winning funding based previous success

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Talent Transfer Programmes

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Uk sport uses talent transfer
- Athletes seeking out opp or coach releases enough time to try new
- Similar movement, physiological and tactical skills
- Switch due injury plague less motiv retirement
- Can also occur talent identif