What Role Does Sport Play In Society Essay

‘’Sports provide a structured, organised world that satisfies some of our need of meaning’’ (Fulford 2006). From this statement we can see how sport plays a big role in society. Sport structures how we fit into society through the different activities we do. Sport helps you to develop as a human, it’s like a religion where it provides rules and guidelines and develops how you should act. There are many theories too describe different behaviours and how each theory describes how different social factors affect us in society. Social theories helps us to understand why we do things the way we do them in society. In society there are many inequalities factors such as:

• Race

• Gender

• Sport

• Social Class

• Sexuality

• Disability

With every inequality it changes our perception of the world aka our society. In our society we have currently five major theory’s, and we also think how we can change our

I mean why can’t there be women participating in other sport such as rugby and if they do play they should not be discriminated against and be called to masculine. There is nothing wrong with women participating in any sport no matter how masculine it is. A great example to this would be the sport of power lifting. If a male power lifts it’s considered to show his true masculine side, while if a woman participated she would be considered to be outside the norm, because she participates in a manly sport. But it also goes the same for backwards. Some sport such as gymnastics is considered to be a female sport. Well what happen when a man plays a feminine sport? He is then discriminated by being called too womanly because of the sport he chose. Is that wrong I ask? This perception of what sport is masculine and feminine is just so irrelevant, and thank god people are beginning to recognize, while before if something like women participating in jousting (medieval horse riding sport) and get caught, she could have her life taken because of