Youth Sports
D1. Discuss how social and economic conditions have affected the emergence, growth, and current state of youth and college sports in the United States.
The emergence, growth, and current state of youth and college sports in the United States have been subject to many things, but two of the most influential and definitive conditions of these stages are the social and economic factors.
The emergence of sports in the United States had little to do with youth sports and everything to do with college sports. The main factor socially was the unity and the entertainment that college students found in the a sport that was a combination of football, rugby, and soccer. This was one of biggest moment because this sport that these Ivy League students …show more content…
Whether they increase in size, or value, they will be social institutions that are continuously changing. All we can be certain is that economic and social factors will drive this change. Economically, sports have grown to huge proportions. The Dallas Cowboys franchise is worth 4 billion dollars and several football clubs in europe are following closely. Money will continue to see value in sports because money is what drives this growth. Investment in new stadiums, new donations for more programs, and there is a trickle down effect where as college sports get bigger, so do high school sports, and so does youth sports. The great race to nowhere is one of the examples of how prominent this trickle down effect is, and how youth are finding themselves victims of the social institutions they find themselves in. Whether the social factors follow the money, or lend the money it is a chicken and egg phenomena where social factors and economic factors are both simultaneously changing and growing sports in our …show more content…
Ancient sports could be classified as social institutions because they were very much an institution run by the government for different purposes. In greek times it was more for entertainment, and Roman times it was more of a distraction, but none the less the ancient sports were a network of structures in society that people found themself in. In ancient times the institution side was much more obvious where the royalty would been in the arena and they would have the say on the fate of the gladiators and such. The social institution of modern sports has become more hidden. Organizations like the NCAA and NFL and MLB are there, and we know that they are there, but they take a behind the scenes role in the sports. The NCAA makes the rules and the eligibility standards, but in the actual games we don’t see significant presence of the NCAA, we see the players, coaches, referees, and the fans. This network of structures has adapted with society because now we tend to see less of the “people pulling the strings” as opposed to in ancient times where those individuals were very much in the front of
The emergence, growth, and current state of youth and college sports in the United States have been subject to many things, but two of the most influential and definitive conditions of these stages are the social and economic factors.
The emergence of sports in the United States had little to do with youth sports and everything to do with college sports. The main factor socially was the unity and the entertainment that college students found in the a sport that was a combination of football, rugby, and soccer. This was one of biggest moment because this sport that these Ivy League students …show more content…
Whether they increase in size, or value, they will be social institutions that are continuously changing. All we can be certain is that economic and social factors will drive this change. Economically, sports have grown to huge proportions. The Dallas Cowboys franchise is worth 4 billion dollars and several football clubs in europe are following closely. Money will continue to see value in sports because money is what drives this growth. Investment in new stadiums, new donations for more programs, and there is a trickle down effect where as college sports get bigger, so do high school sports, and so does youth sports. The great race to nowhere is one of the examples of how prominent this trickle down effect is, and how youth are finding themselves victims of the social institutions they find themselves in. Whether the social factors follow the money, or lend the money it is a chicken and egg phenomena where social factors and economic factors are both simultaneously changing and growing sports in our …show more content…
Ancient sports could be classified as social institutions because they were very much an institution run by the government for different purposes. In greek times it was more for entertainment, and Roman times it was more of a distraction, but none the less the ancient sports were a network of structures in society that people found themself in. In ancient times the institution side was much more obvious where the royalty would been in the arena and they would have the say on the fate of the gladiators and such. The social institution of modern sports has become more hidden. Organizations like the NCAA and NFL and MLB are there, and we know that they are there, but they take a behind the scenes role in the sports. The NCAA makes the rules and the eligibility standards, but in the actual games we don’t see significant presence of the NCAA, we see the players, coaches, referees, and the fans. This network of structures has adapted with society because now we tend to see less of the “people pulling the strings” as opposed to in ancient times where those individuals were very much in the front of