KP211 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Competition, Universal Language, Precondition
10 Jul 2019
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
4 functions of competitive sport: take care of the body for labour and military needs. Ritual tool to push the limits of human physical capacity. Competitive sport leads to mass sport: sport lead to education / science / technology implemented in mass health through sport. Pre-condition to clean the road for mass sport. Imbalance between competitive and mass sport due to external factors. Spontaneity of social like and iniquity it provides: educational function-spectacles and sports events. Truest examples of reactions between outcomes and skill. Demoralization tied to commercialism, not to competitive nature of sport: international function. Competitive sport is truly integrative > best athlete wins. How might a structural-functionalist prove their hypothesis. Invest in competitive sport to simulate mass sport participation: own the podium. 2015 - 34. 9 million to rio 2016 athletes, 22 total medals = 1. 59 million per medal. Stats canada - sport participation rates are plummeting. Swimming - 30%, gymnastics - 50%, downhill skiing - 66%
