100960 Chapter Notes - Chapter 15: Hegemonic Masculinity, Social Fact, Heterosexism
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Sport is a social phenomenon and a social construct. A human activity capable of achieving a result requiring physical exertion and/or physical skill by its nature and organization is competitive generally accepted as being a sport australian government (2015) Page 1 of 4 sports reproduces society, naturalizing social differences, women were excluded from participation and speculation of the e. g. olympic games sports is organized, ordered and institutionally consolidated. 19th century involved men leaving the family for work in a distance, boys becoming more attached to their mothers, and poorer attachments to their absent fathers. Sports reproduces masculine social values (whitson 1990) but emphasizes a particular form of masculinity: hegemonic masculinity (connell 1997) sports are the exemplars; the models of this type of masculinity to be imitated by others. Sport is associated with heterosexism and the subordination of women and heterosexuals.
