Sport and Society

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Play

Characterisics

  • fun
  • enjoyable
  • spontaneous
  • intrinsic rewards flexible rules
  • simple
  • childlike

Benefits

  • experience risk whilst safe from harm
  • social skills - socialisation, teamwork, leadership, rules and authority
  • develops interdependance and self-esteem
  • allows a child to test boundaries
  • adults play: escape reality, acting childlike, opportunities for creativity and fantasy
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Sport

Characteristics

  • serious
  • high skill levels
  • competitive
  • organised
  • intrinsic and extrinsic rewards
  • rules enforced by officials and codes of conduct
  • fixed competitive structure
  • NGBs

Benefits

  • Fulfilling potential and talent
  • challenge to strive and acheive success
  • release tension and stress
  • social skills - teamwork and leadership
  • determination, perseverance and courage
  • society benefits: socialisation, economic benefits, improve international relations and improve social morale
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P.E

Characteristics

  • planned and taught, teacher led
  • formal
  • structured aims and objectives
  • school/educational setting 
  • learning
  • active

Benefits

  • health and fitness
  • social skills: leadership, communication, confidence, interaction and teamwork
  • offers new opportunites/physical skills developed
  • cognitive skills
  • enjoyment
  • respect
  • opportunities to be active
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Leisure

Characteristics

  • enjoyable
  • self-chosen
  • self-directed
  • relaxation/ease

Benefits

  • relaxation
  • unwind from day to day life
  • socialise
  • improve health and leisure
  • improve physical skills
  • society benefits: conformity, civilised society encourages social and racial mixing, economical benefits
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Recreation

Characteristics

  • focus on participation not on the results
  • voluntary entrants
  • active
  • choice of what to do
  • flexible rules/timing/space
  • relaxed atmosphere

Benefits

  • refresh
  • recuperate
  • relax
  • society benefits: community integration, less strain on the NHS, social control and crime reduction, employment opportunites and economic benefits
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OAA

Characteristics

  • test yourself
  • freedom
  • adrenaline
  • danger/risk
  • natural environment
  • skills
  • interaction with the outdoors

Benefits

  • engaging/learning about the natural environment
  • escaping pressures of day to day life
  • involved in adventure
  • physical exercise
  • experience beyond everyday life or environment
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