2250A Chapter 1: Sport and Physical Culture in Canadian Society
Case 1: test your opinion
gordon sisters boxing
Eugene Sandow
Bicep Babes
FitBit
Connection of sports and canadian society
media
education system
govn't organizations
how do we know
Increase in sports speciality channnels/ online sites
sports in newspapers and broadcasting
large financial commitments
playing, organizing watching
intramural recreation and inter school sports
increase in recreation for health
Changes
positive changes
mass sports
democratization
greater control over circumstances and meanings of participation
eg, indigenous games, gay games, paralympics
Challenges
greater right to participate regardless of social position
Inequalities impact participation
participation: declining
gender gap: increasing
age participation: older people participate less and younger people uninterested
social class: higher income = more participation
immigrants/ francophone are participation less, especially established ones
Issues in sport
labour disputes
drug use
sexual abuse
environmental issues
masculinity for glory of violence
sociology as a social science
study of human social behaviour
aims
advocacy
promotes human development
encourages better use of human/enviro resources
"the model"
societal institutions
social determinants
economy
gov/politics
education
mass media
sport
gender
race/ethnicity
physical ability
sexual orientation
age
class
My sports and PA experience - AGENCY
origin of sport sociology
emerged in 1960s
underpinned by political events: Vietnam war, American civil rights movement
black power salute at 1968 olympics
the Canadian connection
history: english/french influences
unique social relations between anglophone and francophone; indigenous and Euro-Canadians
cultural aspects
winter sports as 'distinctly Canadian' (eg. hockey)
Sport
formally organized activity involving vigorous physical exertion or complex physical skill
during competition, technical aspects become important
rules must be standardized by a regulatory body that oversees rule enforcement
Institutionalization
one dominant patterns, rules and ways of playing that defines our sense of what sport is and how its played
allows us to understand what sport is and how those views become dominant
eg, is chess a sport?
Social construction
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