Figueroa's Framework Essay

Using Figueroa’s framework as a guide, evaluate and predict current and future participation levels for Beach Volleyball for Maryborough in the next 10-15 years. Evaluate what role the various personal, sociocultural and motivational factors have on your personal participation in Beach Volleyball. Make recommendations as to how the participation levels could increase by addressing issues of Access and Equity as well as the globalisation and commodification, media influence and marketing of beach volleyball.

Beach Volleyball, an intense, quick paced game first invented by William G. Morgan in 1895 , is a widely loved sport with a large demographic. I predict that the future participation levels for Beach Volleyball in Maryborough in the next 10-15 years will be low. This can be explained using Peter Figueroa’s framework, a well-known sociologist. In this essay I will evaluate how my personal participation
On a cultural level, my participation in Beach Volleyball has been influenced by the gender stereotype that Beach Volleyball and Volleyball are girl’s sports. This is because in all the schools and towns I have lived in Volleyball has been predominantly a girl’s sport; this stereotype pushed the need for other sports for guys. Sports such as rugby, soccer, cricket and AFL were all stereotyped as guy sports. If you didn’t play those sports then your social status was affected and if you were in a certain social group as in the ‘popular’ kids then you were expected to play a ‘guy’ sport. Had this not been the case and had the issue of gender not existed than I think there would’ve been a lot more interest and participation at a younger age then leading into the teen years. Gender stereotypes such as Volleyball being a woman’s sport and Football being a men’s sport have a large influence on participation