21st Century
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- Created on: 10-05-18 08:40
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- 21st Century
- Class
- More divisions between middle and working class, but classes are less pronounced
- Social mobility can be achieved through sport
- The formation of leagues increase the number of participants from all classes
- Amateurs in sport like cricket/rugby are associated with middle class
- Professionals in sports like football are most likely working class
- Gender
- More men involved in sport
- Can be seen as 'masculine' or unfeminine, reinforcing male dominance in sport/sport coverage
- Women more involved in physical exercise; rise in interest of fitness and health
- Increase in female sports presenters, encouraging more women to get involved
- Law and Order
- Legislative for sport is more sophisticated/more specific to sport
- Rights of players and spectators is more enshrined in law as well as laws related to aggression
- Football banning orders used to prevent hooligans from travelling to fixtures abroad
- Laws set to prevent discrimination on race/gender
- No form of discrimination was accepted at all
- Education
- Exams in PE and sport have increased, showing a rise in opportunity for young people
- There are middle and secondary, modern and secondary as well as private schools
- Availability of time, money and transport
- Tech innovations as well as more free time and flexible working hours
- Global recession affected peoples disposable income, concluding that less money was spent on sport
- Availability of transport increased, each household owned a car.
- Increase availability of cheap air fare = more travel abroad to get involved with sport
- Globalization of sport
- Process that involves sport as worldwide business
- Organisations such as FIFA can have their reputations tainted with alleged cheating
- Freedom of movement
- Sport is now a global marketplace for players to showcase their skills
- National and international laws enabled this freedom of movement
- Many spectators travel abroad to support their teams/watch international competitions
- Possible reasons for globalization of footballers: better/faster and cheaper transport
- Class
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