Influence Of Generation Z

Olivia Gold, Report 12.05.14

Introduction:

Within today’s society, we are surrounded by Generation Z who are a group of people at a particular stage of life. The factors in which influence Generation Z’s participation on different sports vary over a wide range. These include: media, friends, popular view, advertising, how accessible, the geographic location, socio-economic, historical and political influences. Generation Z were born with laptops, cell phones, gaming devices, iPods and the internet. They do not know life without technology. They are not bothered about privacy and are willing to share intimate details about themselves with complete strangers. This is seen daily through facebook and twitter and so on. As a result, members of Generation Z are very collaborative and creative. When they are at the age of employment, they will have an influence on the workplace dramatically in terms of style and expectations. Nevertheless, personally the societal influences that affect me for majority of the time are my peers, the accessibility and socio-economic. Additionally, due to hefty societal influences a great deal of issues have been educated such as the conception of stereotypes and misleading guides to the ideas are the body.

Societal Influences:

Firstly, the societal influence of family is one of the fundamental reasons to why people choose to start a certain sport. This is because, traditionally within a family they all play or have played the identical sport. Parents can expose children to various sports by taking the along to participate. These skills can then influence preferences and the activity choices of their child. Parents also provide encouragement towards the differential motivation that may not be linked t...

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...as to what physical activity we engage in, these include: media, friends, popular view, advertising, how accessible, the geographic location, socio-economic, historical and political influences. As well, because of the societal influences numerous matters are raised, mainly the most important is the creation of unwanted attention to stereotypes and false opinions as to what your body should look like, and how you should act for that sport i.e. you must be tall, have huge muscles, and have had to be training since you were 8 to be a fast swimmer. We live in a world where there are continually societal influences in everything we undertake, both positive and negative, but these should at no time determine your participation in any type of physical activity, as it is too much to just stop something your heart is set on, it is too momentous to give up.

Olivia Gold