How Sports Can Change?

Sports influence how we dress, we wear t-shirts, jerseys, hats, proudly promoting our favorite sports teams or players.  Sports influence our spending habits.  They can influence our attitudes and ideas about what sports we ourselves want to play, what colleges we want to attend, etc. Sports also influence politics, which is evidenced today by the controversy with football players taking a knee during the national anthem. The evolution of sports has brought about many changes including minorities and women being able to participate in sports, the Olympics, and the correlation between health, physical fitness and athletics.

Should we be bothered by sports politics? Considering we rail against the NBA and the athlete’s narcissistic nature. We also shake our heads in disbelief when a pro athlete takes five steps to the basket and no foul is called. We expect that high school and youth sports to be free and devoid of such madness because we believe it to be the last bastion of purity in sports. We are irked when politics come edging its way since it betrays our innate notion of fairness.

Contests in skill, strength and speed have occupied an important place in every culture throughout the ages. The meaning of the term sport and the effect that sport has on society is always changing. Sports have especially changed in the last two decades and can certainly be evidence by the growing number of labor disputes and court cases involving all sports.

Sporting events have always been an important fixture of society. In fact, sports are more like an extension of the reality in which we live. Referring to the modern Olympic games, Avery Brundage stated, “Sport, like music and other fine arts, transcends politics… We are concerned with sports, not business and politics.” Each historical time period is marked by cultural norms and these norms translate onto sports.

Sports and child development have a lot in common with each other, they counter cross and when a child is in a sport they have to monitor them to make sure they are learning and doing things correctly. Being a child that is in sports is hard because they have short attention spans and therefore having a child in sports will not only teach them great teamwork but it will also teach them to listen a follow instructions.

There is a growing sentiment that nationalist and conservative political parties are increasing in popularity and influence around the world. While this may be true to some extent, it is arguably the rise of the “New Right” that is gaining significant momentum in surging popularity and influence at this current time. While it is easy to suggest that nationalist, populist, conservative and even fascism is becoming more mainstream and acceptable in modern society, it is important that the New-Right is differentiated from the current group of “right” leaning politics. This paper will identify and discuss what is the new-right and what makes it different from other forms of the political right, as well as examining the cause and as contributing

Ever since the 2014 FIFA World Cup, there’s been uproar over El Tri’s fans’ use of the slang word ‘puto’. There are critics out there such as Mexico’s coach Michael Herrera that state in Monica Trasandes article “Mexican Coach Allegedly Defends Use of Homophobic Slur;FIFA investigates” that it’s "not that bad.” (Trasandes 2). Fans, as well as some media and commentators agreed that the term was only being used as a phrase used by the Mexican culture. Article 3 of the FIFA Statuses States, “Discrimination of any kind against a Country, private person or group of people on account of race, skin color, ethnic, national or social origin, gender, language, religion, political opinion or any other opinion, wealth, birth or any other status, sexual orientation or any other reason is strictly prohibited and punishable by suspension or expulsion.” (Fifa.com, Article 3). The officials that run FIFA agreed that it was only a way to distract the goalie. What they happened to overlook, however, was that the slang term only accentuated and brought light to the subject of homophobia. Holly R. Cashman said it best in her article, “Why ‘Puto’ Must Go” in saying that, “We know that homophobic slurs are not just words; we know that they reinforce a reality in which LGBTQ people are vulnerable to attack and abuse, not on a football field, but in the streets, at work and at home. Slurs translate into real physical violence because they

The host city — and as a rule the city 's blacks and Muslims — pay the cost for the following frenzy. In June, Russian and English law breakers battled in Marseille, France, before an opening-round match of the Euro 2016 titles. A gathering of English fans stood up to a portion of the city 's Muslim nationals, droning, "ISIS, where are you?" In February of a year ago, when the Champions League match amongst Chelsea and Paris Saint-Germain was held in Paris, Chelsea supporters pushed a dark man off the Metro and droned: "We 're supremacist! We 're supremacist! Also, that is the way we like it!" There is nothing unobtrusive

Athletes can cause political uproar in many ways, but should they? The article “Athlete as Agent of Change” written by Lonnie Bunch and David Skorton is a nonfiction piece discussing some of the actions athletes take to protest against a problem they see, particularly involving the government, using their influence on the populace. Athletes should use their fame to promote a political agenda, as long as it is peaceful. First off, everyone has the right to free speech, and as long as the protest is peaceful, they are within that right. Also, athletes can help influence the populace to bring attention to an important topic that is affecting the world or their lives. This article supports athletes using their fame to influence the public for

Nationalism is a widely debated ideology that differs based on the historian’s definition. For example, Benedict Anderson attempts to define nationalism as "an imagined political community [that is] imagined as both inherently limited and sovereign"(Anderson, pg 6). Anderson also believes the main causes of nationalism can be

Sport plays a huge role in today’s society. It contributes to one’s health and fitness, social interaction, social and motor skills, patriotism, fun and entertainment. It also stimulates the economy and tourism leading to interaction between different cultures, for example the Olympics, and sport role models. Sports clearly are an important part of cultures and societies around the world as such events as the Olympics

Sociological Theories on Sports Kabir Trehan Sheridan College 14th October, 2015 Sociological theories on Sports Functionalism had developed gradually throughout time with contributions from numerous sociologist from diverse parts of the world. It is a theory on the notion that social events can most appropriately be explained by the functions they perform and their contributions to the continuity of a society. (Collins & Jackson, 2007) It is the view in which the working parts of the society are studied.

The idea of racism in English Football, particularly the Premier League, is nowhere near as old as racism in England or the rest of the United Kingdom for that matter. However, the Premier League is often times considered the world’s best league when it comes to football and draws the best talent from around the world. In the recent years, the league has seen a sizeable influx of players from outside Britain and Ireland, which shows a reflection of an increasingly commercialized game with a global reach. These incredible players are put on center stage week in and week out throughout England on the biggest public arenas and draw millions of faithful supporters to their home club’s stadium. However, even with an increase in the number of foreign-born players, racism is still very prevalent in the ever-growing sport. The reality is that football represents one of the tapestries onto which social achievements and problems, claims and counterclaims are ritually etched. The growing awareness of how racism is connected to football functions through a complicated framework which reveals it as a problem which is very much “out there” in wider society today. Racism does touch the game of football, its players, officials, and their millions of supporters and reinforces the notion that racism is still very ubiquitous in an England that is often times considered diverse and accepting.

"Politics has come to be considered not only inappropriate in the arena of sports, but actually antithetical to it," Zirin says. "We want so much to see sports solely as an arena of play, not seriousness. But here's the thing, this can cheapen not only the greatness and relevance of sports to us as a society, but also the courage of the athletes" (The Nation). The pursuit of fame, wealth and status can blind the human conscious, which is why it is important for us to encourage athletes to speak their minds. As a nation, we should not silence the athletes, because it is the truly courageous athletes who have the audacity to stand up when it’s not popular. Sports should be used as a platform for a certain kind of politics: militarism,

Sport sociology examines sports as a part of cultural and social life, and adds a different dimension and perspective to the study of sport and exercise. More specifically, sport sociology examines the relationship between sports and society and seeks answers to many issues and questions regarding sport and culture. Sociology of sport poses critical and controversial issues; additionally, sports are considered a microcosm of society, the same social issues that exist in larger society also exist in sport culture. I have chosen eight peer-reviewed Sociological Journals to expand upon the understanding of this topic that I found to be the most relevant and offer diverse yet complete perspectives on sports.