User:Mlingx3/sandbox

Welcome to my sandbox!

This is the place where I get to practice the variety of wiki functions and learn more about the editing tools. It's fun stuff.

The article I chose to edit for wikipedia is "sociology of sports". In this article, there is not much information except for broad generalization of where this term came from and how sports are categorized. Some ideas I would add include what sociology of sports means, and how it has shaped our culture and society and vice versa. I would go into how the different factors have influenced our attitude towards sports and how has been changing throughout the decades.

I found some reliable sources online through journal articles and will attach them to the bibliography and here. http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1012690214539160 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF00988376 http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1012690214538627 http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1012690214539959

It examines the influence of culture and values on sports and vice versa. There are multiple relationships between sports and gender, commercialization, violence, race, media, social inequality and mobility.

In most premodern societies, the gender role for females and males in sports was reinforced at a young age. The sociology that formed surrounding sports enforced the idea that sports were too masculine for women and are encouraged to play noncompetitive games while men were able to compete. The impact of sports and games was to prepare young children for adulthood. The separation between the roles of men and women in a society of sports is expressed through media and gender identity. On media, the sports viewership varies by gender. Men's sports are more prominent on the media versus women's sports and the sports broadcasted vary. On NCAA news, the text and text space greater than 2:1 coverage of men’s sports over women’s, the pictures are around 2:1 male athletes over female athletes. For males the sports typically include football, hockey, baseball, soccer, basketball, pro wrestling and boxing, while women's sports covers figure skating, gymnastics, skiing, and diving. There is a contrast in the sports for each gender: the men's sports include confrontative, combative coordination and the women's sports are less aggressive and more individual and stylish. Participation in “masculine” sports creates gender identity conflict for females, likewise participation in “feminine” sports creates gender identity conflict for males.