SPORT SOCIETY Flashcards
Rational recreation characteristics
respectable regular codified purpose built skills referees
what did industrial revolution do
led to more people populated in cities
positives of industrial revoltuion
- health and hygiene improved
- increase in wages
- new middle class
- influence of ex public school boys
- industrial patronage
- better transport
negative of industrial revolution
- lack of space
- lack of leisure time
- lack of income
- poor health
- a lack of public provision
urbanisation
movement to cities from rural areas seeking work in factories
transport revolution
- movement of teams
- improved access to country
- cheaper
communications
increased literacy led to rules. Printed media increased knowledge of results and role models.
reasons why church promoted sport
- social control
- muscular christianity
- YMCA healthy body healthy mind
what the church did to help sport progress
- provided facilities
- set up teams eg Man City
middle class role
- codification
- competitions
- public provisions
- increased leisure time
- move to professionalism
british empire
- taught values in schools
- set up teams
- used sport with army forces
- took sport with them
- formed NGB
public provision
wash houses act of 1846
causes of development of NGBS
- more teams
- leagues were required
- codification was required
- maintenacne of amateur ideal
amateurism
plays sport for love of it
proffessional
receives financial gain
gentlemen amateur
public school, higher status, all rounder, high moral code.
working class professional
lower class, specialised, low level of morals, little free time
modern day proffesional
- all classes can compete
- respected for talent
- celebrity status
- money invested
- role models
- more time
why did lawn tennis develop
as middle class wanted to play but were excluded
lawn tennis characteristics
- set rules wing fields kit rule book
- back of gardens
- excluded lower class
- allowed women in 1884
wedlock Olympic Games inspired what
baron de coubertin visited olympian society in 1890 and established international olympic committee
wedlock Olympic Games
mixture of athletics and country sports and prizes were offered
development of track and field athletics
large numbers attended athletics and wagering was common. Amateur athletic club set up bringing respectability. and an exclusion clause. The AAA withdrew exclusion clause.
women’s AAA set up in
1922
