KNES 293 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Dialectic, Tim Tebow

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A society"s sporting practices are influenced by and often reflect the broader social, cultural, political, and economic climate but sport also influences and transforms its society. Sport is both a product of and a produce of the society in which it emerges. Both sport and its corresponding society are in a two-way, mutually reinforcing relationship: the dominant ideals of the sporting culture are more often than noted designed to reinforce and stephen the dominant part of society. Using the dialectic thesis: allows is to understand the complexity. Allows us to step back from thinking about sport merely as a place of personal achievement and entertainment and study sport ad a cultural practice- they are intertwine. When we identify important practices and ideas that the present to the past. We begin to see social transformations as process that take place over contested terrain.