Drawing on Debates in Leisure and Sport Theory, Using Current Sport, Leisure and Culture Examples, Critically Discuss the Impact of Globalisation and Post Modernity
Drawing on debates in leisure and sport theory, using current sport, leisure and culture examples, critically discuss the impact of Globalisation and Post Modernity.
Modern day football is one of the most popular pastimes across the globe. Billions of people watch and play it every year and can be a very important part of peoples lives. Fans can spend hundreds of pounds a year on travelling across countries and continents to watch their team play. Football is one of the most powerful cultures in the world, politically, economically and socially.
Globalisation is the set of processes, whereby – facilitated by enhanced global flows of such things as industry, investment, individuals and information (Ohmae, 1990). The world is becoming evermore economically and politically more integrated according to Baylis & Smith (2001). Berger & Huntington (2002) also believe the world is becoming a lot more culturally & ideationally more homogenized, or in other words, ‘borderless’. Scholte, (2001) even describes the world as a ‘single place’. Maguire, (1999) stated that there were three main characteristics of Globalisation; Economic – referring to the goods and services of world products and the world market, Social and Cultural – seen as the flow of cultural forms such as music and sport, the labour flow of workers around the world and the flow of ideas, ranging from political ideologies to sub-cultural norms, And Technological, which is the movement of equipment and media such as the internet.
Post-Modernity can be translated to be ‘beyond the now’. Post-modernity has been very hard to define as it embraces elements of philosophy, art and cultural mood. It is a reaction against modernism. “Modernism is an approach to life that humans can progress through the use of science, technology and rationality” (Coakley, 1998:30) Therefore, postmodernism can be described as a late 20th century style in the arts and criticism that represents a departure from
Modern day football is one of the most popular pastimes across the globe. Billions of people watch and play it every year and can be a very important part of peoples lives. Fans can spend hundreds of pounds a year on travelling across countries and continents to watch their team play. Football is one of the most powerful cultures in the world, politically, economically and socially.
Globalisation is the set of processes, whereby – facilitated by enhanced global flows of such things as industry, investment, individuals and information (Ohmae, 1990). The world is becoming evermore economically and politically more integrated according to Baylis & Smith (2001). Berger & Huntington (2002) also believe the world is becoming a lot more culturally & ideationally more homogenized, or in other words, ‘borderless’. Scholte, (2001) even describes the world as a ‘single place’. Maguire, (1999) stated that there were three main characteristics of Globalisation; Economic – referring to the goods and services of world products and the world market, Social and Cultural – seen as the flow of cultural forms such as music and sport, the labour flow of workers around the world and the flow of ideas, ranging from political ideologies to sub-cultural norms, And Technological, which is the movement of equipment and media such as the internet.
Post-Modernity can be translated to be ‘beyond the now’. Post-modernity has been very hard to define as it embraces elements of philosophy, art and cultural mood. It is a reaction against modernism. “Modernism is an approach to life that humans can progress through the use of science, technology and rationality” (Coakley, 1998:30) Therefore, postmodernism can be described as a late 20th century style in the arts and criticism that represents a departure from