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Learning Objectives Learning Objective: Understand how different factors affected the characteristics, participation, growth and development of sport through pre- industrial, post-industrial, 20th century and 21st century Britatin Learning Outcomes: All: Describe characteristics and participation in sport across the different stages Most: Explain the influencing factors on the growth and development of sport throughout the stages Some: Evaluate the effects of a variety of factors on the growth and development of sport throughout the stages st 21 Century Britain • Class • Amateurism and Professionalism • Gender/changing role and status of women • Law and order • Education • Availability of time and money • Transport • Globalisation of sport • Media coverage • Freedom of movement for performers • Greater exposure of people to sport Class The class system in Britain is less pronounced with more fluidity between social divisions, with more divisions within the middle and working classes. Group Description 1 Higher professional and managerial workers 2 Lower managerial and professional workers 3 Intermediate occupations 4 Small employers and non-professional self-employed 5 Lower supervisory and technical 6 Semi-routine occupations 7 Routine occupations 8 Long-term unemployed Class • Professional athletes such as footballers are often unskilled, unemployed males from working-class backgrounds, longing for the prospect of fame and fortune. Social mobility can be achieved through sports, which results in release from poverty. This is promoted through media, creating role models for young people to aspire to. • The rate of participation of people aged 16+ is greater among people from higher socio-economic groups (38.7 compared to 25.7 from manual and unemployed groups) • Although there’s less than 1/10 pupils going to fee-paying schools, more than 4/10 British medal winning athletes in 2012 were schooled privately. –State educated – Jessica Ennis-Hill, Mo Farah, Greg Rutherford, Victoria Pendleton –Privately educated – Chris Hoy, Ben Ainslie • Football is still seen more as a working class sport, but divisions aren’t as clear as th in the 20 Century. However due to prices of seats middle and upper classes are more likely to watch premier league matches and class themselves as fans. • Social class can still determine the type of sport a person chooses to play depending on the cost involved Amateurism and Professionalism • There is now a mix of classes within amateur and professional athletes, with those participating in sport as amateur and professional have more diverse backgrounds related to class, ethnicity and gender than ever before. • More rugby players have become professional • Some women’s football teams have started to turn professional with full time training and funding for athletes, however the pay gap is huge! Top female footballers can earn about £35,000 a year, which is the same as an average player in the male Premier league can earn in a week.
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