Sports

The Function of Sports

-Providing recreation as well as offering means of getting in physical shape and a relatively harmless way to let off steam. Building social relationships to creating tens of thousands of jobs across a country Encourage competition and the pursuit of success.

Dysfunctional consequences
Colleges and universities recruit students for their athletic skills rather than their academic ability This lowers the academic standards of a school but shortchanges of athletes who spend little time doing the academic work for later careers.

Sports and Conflicts

The games people play reflect their social standing. Some sports such as golf, tennis and etc are expensive. Taking part is largely limited to the well-to-do. Football, basketball, and baseball however are accessible to people at almost all income levels.

Conflict
Traditional ideas that girls and women lack the strength to play sport have now been widely rejected. Society encourages men to become athletes while women to be attentive observers and cheerleaders. Women also take back seat to men, particularly in the sports with the most earnings and social prestige.

 Big league sports excluded people of color. They were forced to form leagues of their own. There are high number of African Americans in many professional sports is that athletic performance.

Conclusion. Colored players excel more that white players.

Sports as Interaction
Research using parents' reports in interviews and surveys shows that parents view extracurricular sports activities as an arena for socializing their children to important values and skills that go beyond the benefits of participation in athletic activities.

Different insight of sports

The Structural-functional approach The Social-Conflict approach The Symbolic-interaction approach