Assignment:
Essay answer the question 600 word count. APA format
• Interpret the reasons (presented in the readings and video) that society doesn't question sport and how it is organized (per Eitzen's claim)
• Explain the social arrangements that sustain sport's protections from critical evaluation
• Explain some of the reasons we don't question sport and how it is organized. Why are sports revered as the great equalizer or as a true meritocracy? Are they, and if so, for whom?
• Do we hide from or rationalize classist (rags to riches), racist, sexist, and ableist practices embedded in the "process" of sport (as Eitzen identified)? Or are those categories necessary to organize sport and society?
Readings:
THE DUALITY OF SPORT
By Karen Armstrong