SOC202H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter FOLE: Class Consciousness, Lowrider, Pop Art
Document Summary
This study seeks to ground recent critical perspectives of sports in the every- day cultural practices of one small, historical community. It explores the way high school sport reproduces social inequalities. Students, whether they liked football or not, looked forward to friday afternoons. Regular 7th-period classes were let out early to hold a mass pep rally to support the team. Most students attended these events but a few used it to slip away from school early. Nevertheless, as on most fridays, teachers and students were talking about the. Some teachers engaged the players in lively banter during classes about. In senior english class a long analysis of last year"s bad calls, missed kicks, and fumbles ensued. The history of this event had already been reconstructed, and those students interested in it shared that moment with the players. Most north town students, like the adults, looked forward to football season and the friday night games.
