SOC 505 Lecture 8: Week 8 Notes
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Sports maintains social harmony/disrupts social harmony (think of social functionalism) Its connecting, pragmatic, folk culture connect us, folk highway means the sport connects us. The activity of shopping has been embedded in the thanksgiving culture. Contemporary sporting nationalism and the olympics: benedict anderson (1983) explains that nationalism operates through the construction of. States has been crafting patriotism for longer and with greater vigor than any other asides from perhaps the former ussr. American national pastime: baseball (1992) american football (1932) and, by the 1930s, basketball (1936) were clearly the trinity at the heart of twentieth-century american sporting passions, nfl, nba, mlb, and nhl are the top american sports in order. Slide 9: part three- canada, hockey, and nationalism: canada and hockey, absent so far has (cid:271)ee(cid:374) ho(cid:272)key, ca(cid:374)ada"s (cid:862)(cid:374)atio(cid:374)al pasti(cid:373)e(cid:863) a(cid:374)d a popular a(cid:374)d profita(cid:271)le. Sweden finland, usa) and the us in basketball (spain, argentina, canada)