Sports Values In Society

Abstract: Society is affected every day by many different kinds of sports.  These sports often govern society's way of life.  People all over the nation turn their TVs to sporting events, such as golf, during the weekends.   Scott Stossel states that "more than six million Americans enjoy watching golf on the weekends."  Parents  use sports as a teaching tool for their children.  Kids learn teamwork and discipline from team sports programs and  sports have also helped many students with their grades.  Kids who want to compete in school sports are taught to keep their grades up or they won't be able to play, but the greedy coaches and schools often look around grades to keep their "star athletes" in the games.  Adults have

Sports are something that everyone in the world, regardless of age, sex, or nationality, can enjoy. Whether it's a child playing in his first t-ball game or a professional athlete swimming in the Olympics and everyone in between, sports can connect almost everyone. Fan support and overall devotion for athletic competition has raised professional athletes to superstars and national icons; Super Bowl Sunday is a national holiday to some, and sports are one of the largest moneymakers in the economy.

Sports of old were merely competitive activities rooted in heroism and romanticism. Sports activities today, however, have no such innocence or simplicity. Currently in America, the activities that make up our sports culture is not only the competitive events themselves but the processes and issues that underlie and surround them. Entwined in our sports culture is the giant business of mass broadcasting. Indeed, sports and the media go hand in hand like peanut butter and jelly, like Mickey and Minnie, Darth Vader and Luke. They are intertwined and depend on each other to continue to grow. Sports media includes television, radio, magazines, newspapers, books, films, and, now, most importantly, social media devices provided by the

However, when Carolina lost the National Championship to Villanova on the last play of the game, I was a sore loser. The next day at school, all the Duke fans were chanting Villanova and I was being a sore loser. I have recovered because Carolina won it last year but people should always show respect to the other team and their accomplishments. People that are not born with the privileges we have, has joined together by sports. The Special Olympics is an example of this. Kids that are uncomfortable with themselves and are different from others, have been able to compete in the Special Olympics. Sports gives these kids a moment of a lifetime that they will remember forever. Kids with cancer and with “Make a Wish Foundation” are often granted to go see their favorite teams, and athletes. Some collegiate and professional athletes have used sports to get out of poverty and hard lives. Athletes that started with nothing are grateful to have such an amazing thing happen to them, like being able to play a professional sport. Something happening in the sports world right now is players having the right to protest. Professional athletes have the

In our society sports are a very important social construction. As sports continue to grow, they are becoming more integrated into the major spheres of social life. Sports have become an entity, due to the fact that they not only create entertainment and jobs; sports have become a huge platform for various causes. Sports are extremely important to our society and have very powerful influences. Though experiences vary from person to person, most people have some sort of experience with sports. I personally have experienced sports more from the spectator and participant stance, and have been impacted from each perspective a great deal. Compared to sophomore safety, Jamal Adams my sports experience has been very different from impact and perspective.

Sport in America is, and always has been a very important part of people 's lives. Right from

Sports are extremely popular around the world and only get more popular as time goes on. Sports is on television (TV), in the news, in the newspaper, and online. It only makes sense that this is the case. A sporting event is the ultimate drama. The variability of a game is what gets people so into it. Sports can tell a story, and teach great life lessons as well as inspire people. If sports are that important to the people around the world who watch it, just think about how important sports are to the ones who actually play it and coach it. It is their passion, their persona, their life. With the media’s harsh expectations of teams today, unless a team wins a championship, they are deemed unsuccessful. Since expectations are so high,

Sports are not for everybody, not only because of talent level, but because a certain mindset is to be had to be successful at any sport. A commitment is made. Forty hours of practice a week, the average amount of time spent practicing for football players, all for a one hour game, the average time of one game of college football, takes dedication. That is not even counting the time spent icing, resting, and studying the playbook or film, not to mention the school work to be kept up with for college and high school students. Most athletes have become used to the grind and juggling three or four time consuming activities all at one time while being successful at each. Waking up at the break of dawn, following a schedule, and suffering consequences when a bad choice is made creates character and discipline that is often needed for many little league, high school, and college athletes. The most important non tangible thing sports teach anyone is how to get back up after falling, how to get knocked down but get right back up and keep going, how to move on from failure and overcome it, focusing on the next important part of life. These skills of determination and courage taught through sports are essential for being successful in any part of life and are hard to come by anywhere

Alex Rodriguez once looked back at his decisions and said, “I realized that, you know what, I don’t need any of it, and what I have is enough.” (“Rodriguez”) Alex, just like many other athletes all over the world used performance enhancing drugs. These athletes could have probably done just as well, maybe even better without the performance enhancing drugs. These drugs that Alex Rodriguez, Tyson Gay, Lance Armstrong, and Marion Jones were taking have many effects and consequences. There are many different types of effects that these drugs bring to a person’s life life. One of those effects comes in a social way. Many fans, supporters, friends, and family would be affected as well as their sponsors. Another way these athletes would be affected

Drive through any town in America on a Saturday morning and I am sure that you can find a park or school field that has a practice or games going on. It is estimated that 36 million youth between the ages of five and eighteen will participate in one or more organized sports each year (statistic brain). That is more than the entire population of Texas and most of Oklahoma. What is it that brings all of them, and their families out to line the fields throughout the United States? By the numbers, one can see the impact of athletics in America, if it is positive or negative is the real question. Many believe that this is part of growing up and that it will build character. Others are worried about the effects of competition and risks of injury to the young athletes.

To analyze the sport and the athletes we have to look at the social relations of power and social stratification. First off, there are specific interests of the elites in the media and sports. The dominant classes construct rules of social control, setting limits to the relationships that each class can establish with the sport. For example, the high cost and the difficulty that low-income people have when it comes to the access of necessary structures for the practice of some sports. This results with individuals from the lower classes being stereotyped in a negative way when they interact with other participants who come from a higher social rank. They are taught to believe that the division between social classes is a fair and a natural process, but we all know this is not true. The United States is a meritocracy, and this allows the elites to justify their social position and condemn those who are of lower stature. Claiming that creativity and moral standards are restricted to high social class

In any culture there are items that need constant address in terms of how they affect the people in that culture. Friedrich Nietzsche has tactics in comparison known as Apollonian concepts vs. Dionysian aspects. There are pieces that need each other, and other items that show striking differences that destroy another. Looking at culture, one of the most vast and complex cultures is in America, with the mix of people and ideas from other countries; there is no real ethnicity as well. To view these in a setting that has many of these differences, there is American sports of baseball, basketball, football, hockey, and other lesser known sports. Many American love these sports and uses them as a method to come together and hang out with friends,

In modern day America sports are a very important part of our culture, because we are constantly watching sports and participating in sports. In any sport we watch mythology is present. The very act itself of playing the sport is reflective of old roman times when gladiators would kill for the crowds entertainment although today instead of killing its by hitting a home run or scoring a goal. “At their best, sports are about the extraordinary capacities of the human spirit.”(Wolter). These athletes can become extremely popular to the point were they are viewed as superhuman just like in myths, and there is a reason because the best athletes in their respective sport do what no average person could do. “The most legendary performances speak of almost super-human feats: the sub 4 minute mile, Michael Jordan’s flu stricken playoff

In America sports have become widely popular. Some have even argued that sport can be considered its own form of religion in the United States. Sports have not always been popular and at one time people were skeptical of its benefits. However, many people were coming to America and to fit in they chose to participate in sports. “Sport was an appealing avenue to undermine stereotypes of Jewish men as bookish and weak” (Blazer, 2012).

Sports are embedded in many American schools in a way they are not anywhere else. One element of our educational system consistently surprises them, “Sports are a huge deal in American schools,” says Earl Smith of the New York Times. The positives have always outweighed the negatives in the case against high school sports. As Sato Kai state, “The benefits of sports as part of the education process are abundant and sometimes beyond quantifications,” According to many academic specialists, sports offer formative and life long lessons such as: discipline, responsibility, self confidence, and accountability. These skills can furthermore excel your later life and give you a greater chance of being employed in a high level job. Participation in high school sports helps your later development as an adult and teaches you life long skills that can't be taught elsewhere.