SPMA 1P91 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Rooney Rule, Fairplay, Heterosexism
7 Apr 2017
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Sociological aspects of sport lecture 17 notes- april 4, 2017. The sub discipline of sociology that studies sports as social phenomena. The unit of analysis is not the individual- it"s the group society/culture/economics/politics . Sociologists acknowledge both the positives and negatives of sport in our society . Understanding/appreciating broader contexts, applications, ramifications of our place in. Positives of sport: sport as a socializing agent, sport as a unifier: Adults use sport to teach life lessons to kids. Group membership, sense of belonging, social identification. Example: what brings canadians together in a common cause better than the winter. Even through participation rates for north american amateur athletics are slowly equalizing (male vs. female), the vast majority of high-level administrators are male. Male athletics are often portrayed as strong and tough; women as attractive. Sport reporters, editors, broadcast producers are predominately male, and they: homophobia and heterosexism in sport decide what is covered and how .
