Kinesiology 3347A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Gender Role, School Bullying, Peer Group
21 Apr 2016
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Chapter 12: social and cultural constraints in motor development. There is no individual constraint that prevents women from participating in these sports. A type of environmental constraint: represents a general attitude or belief system in society at large. Even as late as 1970, the exclusion from girls in sport was pervasive: title ix. From 1972-1974 the number of girls participating in high school sports went from 300,000 to 1. 3 million. These are ubiquitous group attitudes and values that influence behaviors of individuals within the group. They create an atmosphere encouraging socially acceptable and discouraging socially unacceptable movement activities. People and situations influence individuals in their choice of activities throughout their lives. Significant others (influential or important people, called socializing agents: 2. Social situations (places where socialization takes place schools, home, playgrounds: 3. Sex refers to male or female biological characteristics (individual constraint) Gender refers to socially determined masculine or feminine characteristics (sociocultural constraint)
