KINE 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 27: Toronto Life, Risk Society
20 Apr 2016
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Risk of injury in pro football is 100%, live 20 years less on average. Toronto life the safest neighborhoods have modest wealth and low pop density, downtown core is a magnet for assaults and upper middle class hoods have large number of breaking and entering. Risk and risk taking aren"t always bad, but risk tends to be associated as only bad, danger. Intense focus on safety, rather than looking at benefits of risking. Uk schools banning ball games due to danger. Sport turns the risk society these on its head. In sport, we voluntarily seek thrill, risk, and our limits. We pursue limitless performance, but the body does have limits. We don"t, we tolerate pain and keep playing. Are understood as normal elements of sport participation and tolerated. Declining tolerance for sport violence and injury in youth sports: ~10% decline in participation in largest youth football league in us between 2010-2012. Variety of factors: but head injury concerns primary cause.
