KP141 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Toller Cranston, Pierre Trudeau, Leni Riefenstahl
9 Mar 2016
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Principal foci of historians in atempt to assess past civilizaions: Refers to how a society manages its wealth. Sport"s connecion with today"s globalized economy pertains to its capacity to entertain (corporate sponsors and. Olympic tv rights fee and salaries of pro athletes. March 2014 ioc president thomas bach sold the next 6 olympic tv rights for 7. 75 billion dollars. Nba has the highest avg annual salary in north america. Refers to how a society is organized with respect to class hierarchy and gender roles. 1860s people were looking for something called amateurism before 1850s there was no sigma atached to making money from sport. Typically the wealthy people with leisure ime played sports. Ater industrializaion, factory workers had a set working schedule so they were able to play sports in their leisure ime as well and would get beter at sport more and more. Upper class was not okay with lower class beaing them in sport.
