...Women in sports: Inequality, Discrimination, Media. Introduction From a long time to now, women are continuously struggling to prove that their sex and color of their skin classification made by society to make them feel inferior does not determine what they are worth. Feminists’ quests for equality also include women in the sports world. This paper will discuss about the inequalities and discrimination of a patriarchal society on women in sports. I will demonstrate the social inequalities that exist and what have somehow changed, also how race discrimination affects women of color participating in sports and the impact of media on how they portrayed women image. Body To begin with, inequality is a word that feminists are fighting over of male-domination in the society. When women are participating in sports, what they do is often not considered as a "real" sport or viewed as "real" women. All that to show that women have to fight to gain control and have their activities recognized as normal by the dominant culture, the men. However, today women are more welcome to play sports; they are never viewed as equal to men. For example, women cannot expect having the same salary, sponsorship and resources as the men when it comes to play sports or any...
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...the baseball team placing second in their tournament. You win yet your team did not get the credit they deserve. Female athletes face a inequality in sport media, payment, collage and even as a pro. The gender inequality prevalent in sports needs to be abolished. It is important to realize in college sports the male athletes get more attention. An example of this is that the stands are more full during a men's basketball college game while not a lot of people show up for women's basketball games. Kelly Wallace, CNN’s digital correspondent said...
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...Social Inequalities of Sports The world of sports has so many different levels to it. In each separate sport, there are different levels that range from recreational and neighborhood teams all the way up to professional leagues. Getting all the way up to this professional or even the collegiate level is a very impressive feat that not many people can say they have accomplished. However, athleticism and talent are not the only thing that gets you to these levels. There are many other factors that have to do with how far you can take your sport and how far your sport will allow you to go. There are many different inequalities such as race, ethnicity, class, and gender that shape each athlete’s experience in their respective sports. The first is race and ethnicity. The conversation about racial inequality is currently a hot topic in the United States. However, over the last fifty years, the world of sports has made some of the best progress of any institutions. In the National Football League, two thirds of the league players are racial minorities, most of them being African American. Close to 25% of the league management positions are occupied by people of color. There were six African American general managers in 2012, and eight of the last 12 Super Bowl participants have either had a black coach or General Manager. The National Basketball Association also has a very good diverse athlete population. More than three quarters of all NBA players are African-American and people...
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...often denying subordinate groups such success and opportunities; this ensures that the powerful continue to monopolize power, privilege, and authority. You should note that most conflict theorists oppose this sort of coercion and favor a more equal social order. Some support a complete socioeconomic revolution to socialism (Marx), while others are more reformist, or perhaps do not see all social inequalities stemming from the capitalist system (they believe we could solve racial, gender, and class inequality without turning to socialism). However, many conflict theorists focus on capitalism as the source of social inequalities. The primary cause of social problems, according to the conflict perspective, is the exploitation and oppression of subordinate groups by dominants. Conflict theorists generally view oppression and inequality as wrong, whereas Structural-Functionalists may see it as necessary for the smooth running and integration of society. Structural-Functionalism and Conflict Theory therefore have different VALUE-ORIENTATIONS but can lead to similar insights about inequality (e.g., they both believe that stereotypes and discrimination benefit dominant groups, but conflict theorists say this should end and most structural-functionalists believe it makes perfect sense that subordinates should be discriminated against, since it serves positive social ends). Conflict theory sees social change as rapid, continuous, and...
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...The NFL is not just a space that removes everyday concerns but a ‘cultural barometer for measuring the deeper.’ Racism and inequality continue to be evident despite modern society’s advances. For centuries, African Americans have been victims of a caste system that has suppressed them from equal rights and freedom (Michelle 2012) By the NFL punishing a player for practicing freedom of speech, the NFL owners play role the slave owners, Ku Kux Klan members, and unjust police men, did in their time period, to suppres the fear of intimacy created by the different racial caste...
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...High Step Shoes-Student Activity 1 High Step Sport Shoes: A Linear Programming Problem Linear programming is a method often used to solve large, complicated problems. These problems often require a manager to determine how to use the company’s limited resources most efficiently. In order to see how linear programming is used to solve such problems, let’s investigate a problem experienced at the High Step Shoe factory. The High Step Shoe problem is just a fraction of the size of those actually encountered in the real world. Step 1: Understanding the problem Mr. B. Ball, director of manufacturing for the High Step Sports Shoe Corporation wants to maximize the company’s profits. The company makes two brands of sport shoe, Airheads and Groundeds. The company earns $10 profit on each pair of Airheads and $8.50 profit on each pair of Groundeds. The steps in manufacturing the shoes include cutting the materials on a machine and having workers assemble the pieces into shoes. A = number of pairs of Airheads produced each week G = number of pairs of Groundeds produced each week Mr. B. Ball’s goal is to make the most money or maximize his profits. Using A and G, write a function to model the profit. 1. Profit = _______ A + _______ G This function is called the objective function. The number of machines, workers, and factory operating hours put constraints on the number of pairs of shoes that the company can make. High Step Sport Shoe Corporation has the following constraints...
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...public schools were shortchanging their children. And they were right (Cenziper, Mellnik, 2013) Many public schools lack the resources to expose students to the world beyond their own poverty-stricken communities. The large disparity among schools in areas such as academics, advantages in higher education, and extracurricular activities particularly sports is based on the economics of the surrounding area. Funding for sports programs are the first to go when a school has difficulty meeting financial obligations despite it being proven that participation in schools sports increases both academic success and test scores. Americans continue to allow programs that assist in closing the economic gap between students and schools be removed under the guise of cost. Why are only certain sports offered in affluent school systems? Children attending school in impoverished communities are not afforded the same opportunities as those students in wealthier areas as a result diversity is lacking in sports that are more expensive to participate in. Racial disproportion is evident in most exclusive sports across the United States. In sports like lacrosse the ethnicity of the team vary rarely reflects the demographics of the state. There have been numerous attempts by non-profit organizations and clubs to diversify lacrosse but they have been unable to break through the invisible barriers. Living in Charlotte, North Carolina it is easy to tell when you are in an affluent neighborhood. The streets...
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...Learning to Win: Sports, Education, And Social Changes in Twentieth-Century North Carolina published by Pamela Gundy focuses on the state of North Carolina and discusses issues such as race, gender, and class that are controversial in education and athletics. Grundy combines many different aspects throughout her book by using stories of other people to explain her central point. Grundy uses personal stories from coaches and athletes such as Walter Lingle, John C. Lendon, and David Thompson. In doing so the book contains an abundance of historical information which is not always shared with the public. The book is neither for or against combining sports and education but just states the facts and different sides of the story. This book holds...
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...Racism is an issue that it is evident in our modern society, and its impact has influenced the way people cohabit in it. Racism has been destroyed the relationship that people should have as human being independent of their races, background, religious and social status. Some people have been victims of racism and discrimination, and other people have witnessed it in everyday lives’ situations such as at school, job, television, sport, etc. Moreover, places that agglomerate people with difference races and background are more likely to find higher degree of racism and discrimination, and the example examined here is sport. Racism in sport may be defined as a situation in which elements involved in a game such as players, coaches, referrers...
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...low status because they have been exploited by powerful men for the work they do and the children they provide. The difference between male and female is socially created and defined by numerous types of cultures. In our society, males are sought to be as the provider of the household who work to support their family, maintain control, they’re “active,” and “competitive.” Therefore, men are encouraged to hold leadership positions and play sports. Whereas women are the caretakers of the children and family, they do the housework, they’re more “submissive,” “passive” and “emotional.” In turn they’re expected to stay home, be supportive helpers, and be quick to show their feelings, as stated in the textbook. According to Martha C. Nussbaum, in her book, Women and Human Development, she states that women “are treated as mere instruments of the ends of others - reproducers, caregivers, sexual outlets, agents of a family’s general prosperity.” They are not treated fairly with the respect they deserve from institutions and laws. Gender inequality is predominately seen in the work force. The work performed by the two sexes is defined to be very different. The U.S. Department of Labor (2007) reported a list of the...
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...Jacob Lauver Paper on gender in coaching There are many issues that result because of gender inequalities in coaching. Some of these include whether it’s right to have men coaching women’s sports while there are no women coaching male sports such as football. Another issue may be whether or not men are really better coaches then women and what the reason for that would be. The third issue that results because of gender inequalities seen in coaching such as how far is too far for male coaches coaching females in sports. The first thing I would like to talk about is whether it is right for men to coach women’s teams even if there are no women coaching male teams. In my opinion there is nothing wrong with this and I feel like the statistics back this up. To my knowledge there has never been a female athlete at a big time college that has complained that she wants a female coach. And to back this up, Geno Auriemma is one of the greatest coaches in women’s college basketball ever and he continues to get great recruits because girls want to play for him. However if females where to coach a men’s basketball team I doubt there would be many guys at UF that would be happy if some women came in and took Billy Donovan’s place because quite honestly it would be tough for her to do a good job simply because it’s a tougher much faster game then women’s basketball and its a lot easier to coach when you know how to play it. The second reason I think that this is ok is because...
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...“Sports Sociology’s Still Untapped Potential”, is a journal discussing an increasingly micro-oriented approach toward studying Sports. This article takes a critical look at the field of Sports Sociology. It is a very under researched and under developed subfield of sociology, but the authors of this article think that it has great potential. It assesses the sociology of sports. It also analyzes how organized sports intermingle with the organizational, political, and economic forces that are present in social inequality. It’s primarily a review of existing research based on previous articles and research. It refers to a lot of previous articles that lets you know it’s not new research. Many of us have only recently started referring to this research as “sports sociology” instead of as “economic sociology,” “political sociology,” “social movements,” “organizational sociology,” or “urban studies.” I’ve learned that sports have become an increasingly important social phenomenon that really lends itself to a sociological approach. Part of this allure is intellectual since both micro and macro approaches have been used in some really great ways to understand sports and how sports impact different issues. I find that Sociologists seem to be taking an increasingly micro-oriented approach toward studying sports. This trend is reflected across almost all substantive categories of inquiry. There seems to be something of a chicken-egg relationship going on, especially, with the simultaneous...
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...The Path to Victory of Pat Summitt Brittany Quay PXS 308 001 15 November 2012 In almost every aspect of the world there is some sort of gender inequality. In most sports the men have many more resources available to them compared to the women. There have been many great coaches and athletes who have overcome the obstacles that the fewer resources have brought on. These athletes or coaches have been successful regardless of the situation. One of these coaches is Patricia Head Summitt. Despite the gender inequalities that are evident in the sport of basketball she has become the greatest coach in the sport. Pat Summitt was born to Richard and Hazel Head on June 14, 1952. She was born in Ashland City, Tennessee. She married R.B. Summitt who she later divorced and together they had one son named Tyler. Pat attended the University of Tennessee at Martin. She majored in physical education and was a member on the women’s basketball team there. Along with playing for her school she was a member of the United States World University team. Summitt graduated in 1974. Immediately after graduating she was offered the job of head women’s basketball coach at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville. She accepted the job offer and worked in this position from 1974 until 2012. As a child Pat grew up in Clarksville, Tennessee but later moved across the county line to Henrietta, Tennessee so that Pat would be able to participate on a women’s high school team. She played...
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...Gender Inequality Gender inequality is a very real thing in the world we know today. It exists all around the world, even in our America. Gender inequality exists between our average American males, and American females. There are plenty examples of inequality in the workforce and even in homes. Is it not often in the media, around your family, and possibly in yourself you see inequality? Usually it is indeed females that receive the most inequality but there are cases where men are treated unequally. Women in society are often seen as the softer, smooth, and not as physical gender. When in truth this is not as it really is, women can be just as hard, rough, and physical as men. But often women are paid less for the same thing as men, and just because they are women! They are not eligible for certain things, for example – the military where women are not allowed in combat situations. And often women are seen as unequal period in the workforce, therefore some people see it that women should stay in the home working there cleaning, cooking, and other things. But in fact more than 50% of homes in America are dual income. But as mentioned gender inequality is not just in America but indeed affects the whole world. One main area that you may see this in the world would definitely be the Middle East. Due to most people’s religion’s there and just their natural beliefs, women are treated very, very poorly. Also in sports around the world, women are treated differently. Did you...
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...social responsibility in professional sports first emerged from the idea that charitable endeavors and community outreach programs could help boost fan support and increase revenues. Today, many professional leagues and franchises use their social responsibility efforts as a way to improve their public relations and marketing strategies ( “Sports Philanthropy”, 2009). Increasingly, teams see social responsibility as critical in bridging the gap between athletes and fans as a result of astronomical player salaries and continued occurrences of player misconduct both on and off the field (Knecht,2007).More than ever before, sports franchises are using their athletes‟ celebrity-like status appeal to generate impact in the community, while leveraging these efforts to promote the image of their league and its teams. The recent rise in CSR activities illustrate that professional sports franchises fully realize importance of image and reputation. According to Public Relations Quarterly, there is a positive and linear relationship between reputation and organizational success (Gibson,Gonzales&Castanon, 2006). Consequently, reputation is the single most valued asset of an organization (Gibson, Gonzales&Castanon, 2006). While positive reputations are beneficial to the success of individuals and organizations, negative reputations can damage and destroy individuals and organizations (Gibson, Gonzales&Castanon, 2006).The professional sports industry has seen this example many...
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