Smith's Preference Case Study

The Cleveland Indians fans have earned the reputation of being extremely dedicated and loyal to their team. According to Rosko (2016), Cleveland Indians’ fan base was ranked in the top 250 in the world. It is no secret that the baseball team has a devoted following, but it does beg the question who are these fans? The followers of the Cleveland Indians’ brand will be segmented into groups based on their demographics and geo-demographics. For the Cleveland Indians, this will entail categorizing consumers into groups based on age, gender, family size, and region.

Around first grade, Ramaz Lower School took a trip to a Mets game. The roar of the crowd nearly deafened me, but I’d never felt more alive. The crack of the bat was addictive and the general camaraderie in Shea Stadium was intoxicating. Within the first three innings, I knew I’d found something special. After the game, my classmate, Jack, came up to me with claims the Mets were the best team ever and the Yankees “sucked.” Naturally, I became a die-hard Yankees fan.

In 2014, George Gmelch studied and observed the practices, taboos, and fetishes that have been placed by other players perviously in the history of baseball. Gmelch amassed tremendous pieces of information upon us with all these players having different rituals,taboos, snd fetishes . From eating Popeyes every morning to avoiding eating certain foods, whatever flats your boat is what works. By slowly but surely observing all these actions Gmelch put together a piece that really can break down the "baseball magic".

In Chapter 10 of Religion and Popular Culture in America, Joseph L. Price attempts to show sports as an example of popular culture as religion, because of its ability to shape the engagement of their fans and the fan’s environments. Although the majority of fans do not see sports as coming close to being a religion, Price gives several compelling reasons as to why sports are religion.

In 1975, Robert Lipsyte wrote “Jock Culture” which was in “The Sportsmaster.” It didn’t appear in “The Nation” until 2011. Analysis will examine the credibility of the examples used by the author to stage his claims.

During a trip to San Francisco, a group of students attended a baseball game. The two teams scored up against each other, the Dodgers against the home team of the Giants. There at AT&T park, on the fifteenth of April in 2015, a glorious game occurred. This date was especially exciting for one students in particular, one who had the name Luke Ackerman, who had a strong interest in those surroundings: the sport, the teams, the location.

Back in 1958, a man by the name of Walter O'Malley moved his professional baseball team from Brooklyn to Los Angeles. Although Walter didn’t know it yet, this move would affect the professional sports league in two significant ways. First, it expanded the market for professional sports to cities on the west coast in states like California, and Washington. Second, the relocation also altered the relationship between sports franchise and their communities.

“At times Odessa had the feel of lingering sadness that many isolated places have, a sense of the world orbiting around it at dizzying speed while it stood stuck in time...300 miles from the rest of the world” (33). Odessans don’t mind the isolation because they have high school football to wrap their lives around. In 1988, H.G. Bissinger moved to Odessa,Texas and had the up close and personal opportunity to study a small southern town and see how high school football affected the lives of its residents. In the same fashion, writer Lewis Lapham studied how sports affect people from all over the nation and came to the conclusion that sports must “preserve an illusion of perfect innocence.” Lapham’s views can clearly be linked to the

The audience to which this paper is directed towards is the college aged baseball fan in America. They are interested in the game and love to go to the ballpark to watch a game, and if they can’t make it to the game they will try to watch it on TV or catch some of the highlights. They hear the stories about steroids and the various scandals, but don't possess a deep understanding of them. My audience’s attitude towards my culture is admiration for the players and teams. However, likely objections could include the steroid scandals and some fans may be hesitant to accept the fact the these players makes huge salaries each year. Professional baseball players come from all over the world, so while it is likely that my audience share similar backgrounds

The first is that he points out the amount of time and resources Americans invest in sports. “ Fans, in fact, spend more money on the Super Bowl – making a pilgrimage to the game; attending parties bedecked with official Super Bowl paraphernalia; placing bets in office pools and elsewhere – than Americans spend on traditional religious practices throughout the entire month” (Price, p. 195). This outlines the devotion that most American’s have towards sports considering that many are more willing to spend more on sporting events than they would give to their church. The impact that sports make in many American’s lives is similar to the influence that religion has. Fans put on masks (painting face/body, dying hair, wearing jerseys, etc.) – creating another world to live in. They worship players, sometimes elevating them to a nearly divine status. In addition, some sporting stadiums have been elevated to nearly sacred places of worship such as Wrigley field. By pointing out these connections, Price’s argument becomes more significant to the readers because they realize that there are many different religious dimensions to

Some people are very accepting of other and some people are not. When I took the Understanding prejudice quiz I got the result saying I had a slight automatic preference for white people. The result did not shock me very much because I was raised in a house where we were taught to treat everyone equal. I was raised with a sister who is half African American. However, I know there are still things I do or say on occasion that can be considered prejudice. It surprised me how high the percentage of Strong automatic preference to white is. I was thinking in today's culture many more people would have grown to accept everyone equally. It is amazing to me that the top 73% all have some form degree of automatic preference towards white people. I

This has led to the Jets now having a MTV-esque identity. On the other hand, the New York Giants have a more established and respected identity compared to the Jets, leading to a comparison of the Giants to the Jets as that of the relationship of an older brother to a younger brother. With these differences between the cultures of the two teams, when a person decides to become a fan of either one of these teams, they instantly associate themselves with these ideas and take on the group identity of being a fan of the team.

Rational choice theory, also known simply as choice theory, is the assessment of a potential offender to commit a crime. Choice theory is the belief that committing a crime is a rational decision, based on cost benefit analysis. The would-be offender will weigh the costs of committing a particular crime: fines, jail time, and imprisonment versus the benefits: money, status, heightened adrenaline. Depending on which factors out-weigh the other, a criminal will decide to commit or forgo committing a crime. This decision making process makes committing a crime a rational choice. This theory can be used to explain why an offender will decide to commit burglary, robbery, aggravated assault, or murder.

Llewellyn-Thomas & Crump (2013) define preferences as a person’s overall most-favored option, after taking into account his/her attitudes toward the detailed characteristics of each option. Preference elicitation” involves identifying which options are, overall, most favored by the patient. Values have been defined as qualities that an individual considers desirable or not, and in medical decision making situations, they often relate to quantity or quality of life. In other words, “values” refers to a person’s informed attitudes about the relative desirability/undesirability of a health care option’s unique characteristics and possible benefits and harms. This definition is in contrast to the broad context of conceptualizing values as the overarching

Luce stated two major difficulties regarding the analysis of transitive preferences. Regenwetter and colleagues (2011) outlined and addressed these challenges. It is important to realize that failure to address Luce’s challenges in the analysis of transitivity can lead to erroneous conclusions.