How Sports Can Change?

Sociology is the study of the social worlds that people create, maintain and change through their relationships with each other. Sports in American society have a major impact on these social worlds and culture throughout the past century. Sports have an impact on social interaction, social structure and the shared ways of life and shared understandings that people develop as they live together. Compared to other forms of physical activities, sports are defined as “well established, officially governed competitive physical activities in which participants are motivated by internal and external rewards.” A critical sociological look into an individual’s development through sport is defined as a Sportography. Darion Scott, born and raised in Compton, California showed me through an interview of his sports history, how sports influenced his life in a positive way and provided a window into his culture and society.

Having remained largely dormant since World War II, Westerners are now beginning to witness a resurgence of nationalism, particularly in the United States and Great Britain. These countries have experienced similar predicaments with an influx of immigration (or migration in Europe)

Since open masculinity was a central idea within soccer fans, soccer hooliganism took place. Hooligans are groups of soccer supporters who travel together with the purpose not to cheer for their respective team, but to threaten, intimidate and assault supporters of other teams. Occasionally, hooliganism is likely to be more severe when there is a game between teams with long-standing rivalries, which are in most cases, teams from the same city. Disputes may take place at any time during game day, even though hooligans often meet in locations away from the stadium to avoid arrest. This soccer violence is related to

b. Sport sociology: relationship between sport and society by examining its inherent institutions (race, genders…)

Over the past century, political agendas have crept their way into becoming the central focus of sports. It’s to the point where a sport is no longer focused on athleticism, but political views. At least five political issues that have been politicized: Olympics, race, religion, homosexuality, and gender. The political proxies in sports have gradually increased in recent years due to increasing political exposure and agendas.

Now the test is in simple view, we face the globalization of anti-globalization, a common face of populists, and nationalists on a worldwide spectrum. We must, consequently, support ourselves for a lengthy struggle, possibly even a generational struggle. This is but a post-liberal world. The forces after the popular front of populism are strong, and traditional parties are often weak, and such waves are not undone overnight.

As noted in Gaming the World: How Sports are reshaping Global Politics and Culture soccer is not simply a game played by millions but rather a language spoken by all. Soccer connects the human race in ways not many things can. The sport has contributed to societal reform and political action worldwide. As mentioned throughout chapter one sports in general have become monstrous influences worldwide due to their power to bring individuals together. Political figures readily attend games and it is clear that soccer plays a part in social climate in almost every nation worldwide. Figures such as Zinedine Zidane and David Beckham have drawn fans from opposing ends of the earth to common ground within soccer. (Ch. 1, pg. 4) Naturally within the culture

There is an explicit assumption that nationalism is a uniform global identity based on the fact that nationalist formations are informed by locally and historically specific power relations. This leads to a process

In the world of sports, the culture of the place you call home plays an influential role in the politics of the game as a result of sports nationalism. On various levels of the game, the competition of sports is seen not only as a celebration of the purity that is the human body but the assertion of dominance by one country over another. As we come to the end of our Discover Chicago Class, our group dove deep into the various levels of sports, learning the politics of the game and what can happen when the game becomes tainted. The last few weeks of our class really brought to light the dangers of what can occur in sports. After watching The Two Escobars and reading the book How Soccer Explains the World, the darker, more cynical side of athletics was exposed. The past few

Shots fired! Angry mobs run through the streets, smashing cars, and store doors! Parents running, trying to get their children to safety! Fifteen officers were injured, and around sixty arrested! Here's the twist to this tragedy… It was not over politics nor war, but a soccer game. Are sports fans over doing it? What happened that night at Buenos Aires, Argentina was an example of sports fans out of control over a game. Since day one of sports, fans have gone too far. Sports fans are just overdoing it.

This paper will examine the political parties of the National Front in France, along with the Party for Freedom in The Netherlands. Drawing on qualitative and quantitative data, along with case studies of the contemporary politics of each respective country, this paper will look to uncover the political, economic and cultural common-denominators of right-wing populist movements in both France and The Netherlands.

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.

These troubled times for the international team coincide with an ongoing era of economic difficulties. Just as they did during their economic difficulties in the mid-twentieth century, Italians are now using soccer as an outlet to voice political concerns, assuming a collective identity for the teams they support as the sport to them is “a vehicle for social integration, social mobility, and local identity” (Lanfranchi 158). This attitude represents that still today Italians’ attitudes on football largely believe that it is a paramount aspect of what makes an Italian distinctly Italian and thus is an easy barometer for judging the moods of the country’s people, so what they say about immigration in these circles is important for the general attitude of the

Nationalism claims that a person’s identity is obtained from their nation. This ideology dictates that citizens share a “common language, shared cultural traditions, and sometimes religion.” Its presence allowed citizens to acquire an identity during a time of growing frustration towards the changing social order and political borders that reforms (political and intellectual) and revolutions left behind. Despite the variability of reforms and revolutions, nationalism has remained static and can serve as a basis for political movements and ideologies that are on opposite sides of the spectrum, e.g. nationalism has served as a basis for both Conservatism and Liberalism. Consequently, I claim that, despite the term being static, it is flexible in its use, i.e., it can be applied to different movements across time. On this basis, I ultimately claim that nationalism as an

Football Hooliganism is the term used to describe disorderly, aggressive and often violent behavior perpetrated by spectators at sporting events. In the UK Hooliganism is confined to Football. This is often referred to as the English disease and forms of this disease date back to the early 1930s. However still present in today 's society, albeit in new forms, in