Race, Gender, And Norms In Sports

In this paper, I’m going to talk about personal experiences and sociological ideas that I’ve learned throughout this course. Some of the social concepts I will be talking about are race, class, gender, and norms in sports. You will be personal reflections throughout this paper, you will see articles on things that we have covered in class.

When I was signing up for classes this class struck my eye because I love sports so might as well learn about them. By taking this class it taught me how to think deeper about the situation then what I normally would have. One thing sociology has taught me was that we are always participating in something larger than ourselves. When we were young we were playing sports just for the fun of it, But as

This theory is a study in terms of how they are created and given meaning by life. The biggest problem is that they ignore power and power relations in society and how they impact sports, sports participation and sport experience.

We also talked about sports mixing with politics in the 70s. The perfect example of this is the movie 42, that we watched in class. Jackie Robinson was the first black person to make it in the MLB, but that wasn’t easy he had to beat adversity, took a lot of trash talk from all of the white fans in the stands. Another thing we spent a lot of time on was the Play vs. Formal teams.

Play: is for development of interpersonal relationships and decisions making processes, and rewards. Play is also known for playing in your backyard with no supervision. Formal teams: Role learning for group members, skills of group members, results from official judgements, and social control is administered. Formal play is controlled and watched as the game goes on and a lot more

When competitive sports is getting bigger and backyard play is declining. Kids are joining teams at younger ages and only joining one sport compared to many of them. Parents feel like by making their kid do one sport they will be more likely to play beyond high school, but in reality by playing more than one sport you will build more skills over time and it will make you more open for recruiting. Some of the best athletes have played more than one sport in high school. For insist Austin Blythe was from Williamsburg and he’s now a senior at iowa and plays football for the hawkeyes. Blythe was a three time state champ in wrestling and a state runner up his freshman year. Iowa was looking at him for wrestling and then by the end of his sophomore year he committed to Iowa for football. Every sport builds off of each other in some way. That’s why I recommend doing more than sport. If you force your kid to do one sport he might get burnt out on it and doesn’t want to play anymore. That happens to a lot of kids at a young