Social Groupings
Task:
Name the sports you are interested in.
Then decide who is responsible for
getting you
started/encouraged/influencing you?
Think in terms of groups:
Peers/Family/Gender/Ethnicity, rather
than naming individuals.
Create a Table for Positive and
Negative effects + Examples
Positive Effects
Negative Effects
Peers
Family
Gender
Ethnicity
There can be both positive and negative effects from each
group.
Can you think of both and how they influence you?
Example
Groupings
• Peers: people of the same age and status as
you.
• How much have peer groups shaped your
sporting behaviour?
Family
Positive effects
• Level of support – financial for specialist kit, coaching,
transport, support and watching them play.
• Parents may be role models and child follows their
path.
Negative effects
• No money/ not prepared to support their child.
• No interest/ sporting background.
• They had negative experiences of sport when they
were young.
• Concerns about academic work.
GENDER
Women at the Olympic Games 776 BC Olympic rules forbid the men-only
Games from taking place unless a priestess of Demeter is present.
•1908 Yachtswoman Frances Clytie Rivett-Carnac and her husband win gold,
making her the first woman in any event to win gold against men
•1928 The collapse of several runners at the end of the 800m run (the first three
women beating the world record) sees the race declared dangerous for women
and banned.
•1928 At the first post-war Olympics, Fanny Blankers-Koen of the Netherlands
was the first mother to be successful at the Olympics. In achieving this
success she breaks the social barrier that had previously discouraged women
with children from participating in sport
•1952 The first woman ever to compete in equestrian sport (against men) Lis
Hartel, from Denmark, wins a silver medal
•1964 Dawn Fraser becomes the only swimmer, male or female, to win the
same event at three successive Olympics.
•1968 Enriquetta Basilio becomes the first woman to light the Olympic flame
in the stadium; sex tests for women are introduced at the Mexico City
Games
•1976 Margret Murdock, of the United States, outshoots male rifle shooters
to win
•1984 Women’s cycling and marathon are added to the Olympic program
•1988 Tennis returns to the Games, with the inequitable situation of fewer
women than men being allowed to compete
•1992 Women’s judo, a demonstration sport in 1988, becomes a fully fledged
Olympic sport
•1996 The 5000m and triple jump are added to the women’s athletic program
•2000 Women’s water polo, triathlon, taekwondo and weightlifting are added
to the Olympic program
Gender Now
• More opportunities.
• More sports available.
• More roles, women officials, management
roles examples.
• Role models.
• Do you feel that things are equal??
Ethnicity
• Some cultures are against women taking part
in PE on religious grounds due clothing and
exposure.
• Play ‘Just a minute’/Taboo