SOCIOL 2T03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Lebron James, Sport Psychology, Militarism
26 Apr 2019
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Canada, germany: though there are many examples of societies within/across nation states, quebec, catalonia, tibet, recognizing the specifics of a society is critical for research and understanding its cultural practices. Understanding and defining sport: millions of canadians participate in sports in various ways, playing, watching, coaching, if we are to study sport as sociologically significant form of culture, we need to have a working definition of it. Defining sport: scholars, media and fans have provided different definitions of sport, the meaning is contested (not universally agreed upon, e. g. Tv networks label as sport many activities others would not consider sport: poker, darts, auto racing, wwe wrestling, guttmans historical typology, differentiates between: Sports: sports are distinguished by: organization, competition, and physicality, chess is an organized, rule bound competition. But its non-physically excludes it from being classified as a sport: leapfrog is a physical and organized game. But lacks the competitive aspect necessary to be labelled a sport: a traditional definitions.
