Sport History exam 2 lecture 3-6

Sports and Games were a common part of what?

Social, local and traditional life

What are Guttman’s characteristics of Modern Sport?

Rationalization, Secular, Equality, Bureaucracies, Specialization, Quantification, Records

What is the difference between rationalization and rationaliaztion?

logic/ critical thinking, order, insufficiency

Disenchantment

No belief in faires, more focus on reality

Fancy

Aristocrats who played with lower class

What sport was briefly introduced in the 18th century?

Cricket

When did sporting events occur during the week?

Monday; only on off work days

When did modern sport begin to rise?

1800-1900

When did the industrial revolution begin?

1900’s

What was the industrial revolution inspired by?

Enlightenment and scientific revolution

Technological revolution

Trains, canals

During the urbanization and the city, what happened?

Industrial culture eroded transitional sports (time, space, common games)

What happened to commercialism and profits?

Teams started by business owners, Stadiums and crowds increased, Professional players

How did baseball emerge?

From “rounders”

What was it about rules?

Helped with the process of modernization and rationalism be applied to sport

When was the Victorian era?

1837-1901

What was the Victorian era about?

Age of revolution, reform, empire, peace, and sport

Where was Victorian model produced?

English public schools

When did the learning through sports begin?

(1850-1900)

What was learned in these public schools?

They learned character formation, physical and moral studies based off sport.

How did sport suited the victorial social thought?

“survival of the fittest”

What is amateurism?

“No pay to play”

What is the MORAL CODE?

Victorian upper/middle classes determined who played and who the sport was played