Sport and Society
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Mob football was a game played in the 19th Century. Describe the characteristics of Mob games (4)
1. Local 2. Unstructured with no boundries 3. Simple rules 4. Played by males 5. Working class 6. Violoent 7. Limited equipment 8. Played on holy days
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Describe the social factors that caused the decline of mob games (3)
1. Banned by authorities/unpopular with middle class and church 2. Lack of space in urban areas 3. Increased working hours/lack of time 4. Rationalising of society 5. Rational forms of recreation introduced
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Explain how social and cultural factors influenced the characteristics of popular recreation in pre-industrial (pre 1780) Britain (4)
1. Limited transport so local 2. Illiteracy so simple rules 3. Harsh society so violent games 4. Only free time on Holy days so not played often 5. Lots of open space so played in fields
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Describe the ways in which Real Tennis was different to most other recreation (4)
1. Played by upper class 2. Wriiten/complex rules 3. Noit violent - etiquette 4. played often 5. purpose built facilities 6. transport available so not played locally
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During the late 1800's the working classes had more opportunities to become involved in team sports. Explain how this was achieved (4)
1. Factory owners set upo teams e.g. football 2. Church set up activities and teams e.g. sunday school teams/YMCA 3. More time off so able to play and spectate 4. Increased disposable income for sport 5. Provision for places to take part e.g parks
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Describe how and why Church organisations promoted sport amoung their local communities during the late 19th Century.
1. Organised teams/clubs 2. provided places to play e.g pitches/halls 3. Muscular Christianity 4. To instil christian middle class values 5. move away from less acceptable activities e.g drinking 6. Recruit into church
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Describe the characteristics of rational recreation (4)
1. Played regularly 2. complex written rules 3. refined skills 4. tactics 5. more values 6. sophisticated facilities/equipment
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Explain why many NGB's such as the FA were established in the 19th Century. (4)
1. Sports becoming more popular 2. More clubs being formed 3. Nationally recognised rules needed 4. Needed organised leagues with more teams 5. Old boys wanted to maintain amateur tradition 6. Working class were starting to establish own control
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Describe, apart from provision of facilities, how else leisure opportunities for the working classes improved during the 19th Century (4)
1. More leaisure time 2. more disposable income 3. Schools/churches provided opportunities 4. Factory owners encouraged recreation 5. Work teams set up 6. Better transport 7. Better media
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Discuss reasons why the working class had fewer opportunities to participate at the beginning of the 20th Century, than those from the upper and middle classes (4)
1. Less leisure time 2. less money 3. restrictive membership schemes 4. Amateur regulations 5. limited demand for professionals 6. working class often banned 7. encouraged to spectate
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Explain how lawn tennis helped the emancipation of women in the late 19th century (4)
1. Women allowed to be energetic 2. Accepted by middle classes 3. men and women played together 4. women allowed to join clubs 5. Women played fully clothed 6. Played in privacy in gardens
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Describe how the modern day amateur differs from the amateur of the early 20th century (4)
1. Amateurs used to have highest status 2. Amateurs used to be best players 3. Amateurs used to control sport - set up NGB's 4. Amateurs were upper and middle classes (gentleman amateur) 5. Amateurs avoided working class 6. Workingclass were excluded
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Describe the factors that have led to an increase in the status of professional sports performers since the 19th century. (4)
1. High standards of performance 2. High media coverage 3. Professionals used to be working class but now can be anyone 4. High money and sponsorship deals 5. Seen as a way to improve social status (way out)
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Explain why there has been a recent surge in interest in female football (4)
1. Equal opportunities 2. Increased media 3. More role models 4. School PE programmes 5. FA inititives 6. More clubs 7. More funding 8. More leisure time
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Describe the factors that led to the growth of lawn tennis from the mid 19th century to the current day (4)
1. Invented/played by middle classes 2. Use of some specialist equipment 3. Standardised rules 4. Played by men and women 5. Some public provision 6. Professionalism/media coverage
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Explain how modern day sponsorship deals have positively and negatively influenced the behaviour of elite sports performers (6)
+ve 1. Train harder = higher quality 2. Improved discipline to protect positive image 3. Encourages sportmanship 4. Encourages good off field attitudes -Ve 1. Win at all costs 2. Aggresive play 3. Drug abuse 4. Gamesmanship 5. Pressure to play/win
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Card 2
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Describe the social factors that caused the decline of mob games (3)
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1. Banned by authorities/unpopular with middle class and church 2. Lack of space in urban areas 3. Increased working hours/lack of time 4. Rationalising of society 5. Rational forms of recreation introduced
Card 3
Front
Explain how social and cultural factors influenced the characteristics of popular recreation in pre-industrial (pre 1780) Britain (4)
Back
Card 4
Front
Describe the ways in which Real Tennis was different to most other recreation (4)
Back
Card 5
Front
During the late 1800's the working classes had more opportunities to become involved in team sports. Explain how this was achieved (4)
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