How Sport Is a Producer and Product of My Society?
How Sport is a Producer and Product of My Society? Throughout the past severalweeks, many ideas have been presented about how sport is producer and product of society. I agree with all the ideas presented in thisclass. I believe the sport is the producer and product of society because of how sport can be influence on everything that surrounds it. Every aspect of our society is affected by sport. Our race affects the amount of sport that we are exposed to. Our social class limits our availability to play certain kinds of sports we may want to play. Corporate America affects the way that we may respond to sport and affect our personal purchase decision. Even our gender can affect the way that we see sport and how others may see us in sports. We may not see it but our position in society affects everything around us even sport and how available sports are to us. My race has played a huge part in my sporting life. Not directly because I have never played any sports besides field hockey in middle school, but indirectly because of the availability of all different types of sport to me. I attended a city wide college preparatory school that is predominantly black. The school contained avariety of different sports such as football, baseball, lacrosse, tennis, swimming, badminton, volleyball, basketball, and wrestling. One thing that I always noticed was which student played which sport. My entire football team was black. A dominant portion of the swimming team was white. Our swimming team was a much better team than our football team but never was glorified like our football team. Since our school was predominately black, it always seemed like the administration always glorified the football team more than the swimming team because the football was keeping the black males out of trouble. For example, swim meets was always announced first during the morning announcements and the football games was alwaysannounced last with enthusiasm. According to Mike Giardina, “Not
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