HIST 3838 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Interrupt, Secularism, Physical Culture
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Quote (cid:498)for many people, sport isn"t just the icing on the cake of life. Colonialism, imperialism and anti-colonial movements (racialized identities) The economic bases of sport, class relations, corporatization of sport. Distinctive set of systematically inter-related formal-structural characteristics. Distinguish sport from other forms and traditions of physical culture, especially in the modern era. 4 characteristics of sport: physical activity (practice, some kind of contest or competition or rival, unpredictable outcome, distinguish from work by the allocation to the field of leisure.