Sports & Socialization

What is socialization?

• Its a way of life

• Active process of learning an social development

• To find about ourselves and know what important

• Need to interact with others

Type of social approach

• Interactionist approach

• Functionalist approach

• Research approach

• Conflict approach

Functionalist approach is about

• Benefit gained from social outcome

• Different characteristic of each person

• Every individual are meant to contribute for stability and functioning of the society

• Each event are for an individual to complete.

Conflict approach is about

• Money and power can be used to control sports event

• Organization will contribute equally to the masses

• Lack of resources are meant lack of opportunities to experience sport

• People compete over resources

Interactionist refer to

• Prefer more to qualitative than quantitative research methods.

• Connection between spots and society are given meaning

• The goal is to win in every competition

• To obtain detailed description about sports

Symbolic interactionism refer to?

• Symbol are given meaning through different memories

• Every objects processes idea, concepts, and system are subjective

• Different words have a different meaning to different individual

• Each symbol will be interpreted differently through social interaction

Process of being an athlete

• Interaction - Participation - Knowledge - Recognition - Expectation

• Knowledge - Interaction - Participation - Expectation - Recognition

• Recognition - Participation - Expectation _Interaction - Knowledge

Based on functionalist approach, sport participation related to

• The abilities and characteristics of the individual

• Decision are change based on circumstances and are not made once

• The availability of opportunities to experience sport

• The ongoing process of athlete lives

What is the catalyst for an individual to decision in sports participation

• Social Support

• Memories

• Pressure

• Image

Based on Coakley, 1992 burnout in young athlete is caused by lack of social and material to continue

• True

• False