pe - social/cultural Flashcards
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Social
The community that someone is in
Cultural
Set of beliefs and customs that leads us to behave in a particular way with our community
Social class - Pre-industrial Britain
Lower Class - Peasants:
- Worked manually mainly on the land
- Activities such as mob football, dog fighting, cock fighting and bare knuckle fighting
- Often cruel and violent, had little to no rules
Upper class - Gentry:
- Aristocracy (rulers) were hereditary land owners
- Activities included real tennis and fox hunting
- Activities were more sophisticated with complex rules
- Participation required money
Pedestrianism and Cricket - Pre-industrial Britain
Pedestrianism: Peasants would compete in the races and the gentry would act as patrons (sponsor) they would bet on the results
Cricket: Gentry would employ peasants who were good at cricket as gardeners so they could play for their cricket team. Upper class were known as gentlemen and lower class as players. Professionals just fielded and they were not allowed to bat
Time - Pre-industrial Britain
Peasants:
- Worked long, exhausting hours
- Often too tired to participate in physical activities
- Many activities only happened once a year e.g. festivals
- Most activities involved drinking competitions/throwing
- Simple and no real rules
Gentry:
- Much more spare time - activities longer-lasting
-They could last all day long
Money - Pre-industrial Britain
Peasants:
- Couldn’t afford specialist equipment
- Couldn’t take part in exclusive sports
- Couldn’t afford to leave their communities
- Loss of animals/crops would be devastating
Gentry:
- Could afford horses/specialist clothing - hunting
- Real tennis was played indoors in stately homes
- Uses expensive/specialist equipment
Transport - Pre-industrial Britain
Peasants:
- Roads in terrible conditions
- Had to rely on walking
- Often couldn’t leave their immediate villages
- Led to different villages having different rules
Gentry:
- Could travel further via horse and carriage
- Could get to different facilities
- Able to buy facilities within their own lands
Law and Order - Pre-industrial Britain
Peasants:
- Took part in violent/cruel activities
- Mob football only stopped murder and man slaughter
- There was no police at the time
Gentry:
- Interested in keeping up appearances
- Would only take part in respectful activities
Education - Pre-industrial Britain
Peasants:
- Uneducated and illiterate
- Activities had to be simple
- Often no rules - couldn’t be written down/ understood
Gentry:
- Educated and literate
- They could read and understand sophisticated rules
Gender - Pre-industrial Britain
Peasant women:
- Seen as the weaker sex
- Activities could not be dangerous/strenuous
- Very few rights/choices in society
- Smock races
Gentry women:
- Participated in different activities to men
- Few rights in society
- May be involved in archery
Social class - Post-industrial Britain
Working Class:
- Worked long hours in factories/mines
- Little wealth/status
- No disposable income
Middle-Class:
- Factory managers
- Didn’t own big estates
- Many had more time/money
- Educated ones were a threat to the upper class
Upper-Class:
- Hereditary land owners
- had disposable income
- All educated
Broken time payments - Post-industrial Britain
Given payments to play as professionals to make up for lost money for not being at work
Time- Post-industrial Britain
- Factory owners didn’t want workers playing sport due to money loss for injury etc.
- Soon realised it has healthy and encouraged teamwork
- Working hours were still long so they had little energy to play sport
- 1880s onwards, Saturday half day
Money - Post-industrial Britain
- Working class still paid poorly, could not afford to participate in much sport
- Broken time payments and professionalism encouraged people to take part
- Middle/upper class could afford to play
- Factory owners realised that a happy workforce is a more productive workforce
- Larger factories would pay for an annual trip for the workers e.g. to the beach so that they were able to take part in more activities
Transport - Post-industrial Britain
- Canals/roads made it easier for people to travel much greater distances
- Invention of the bicycle meant more travel
- Trams were very important as they allowed people to travel all over the country and Scotland/Wales so fixtures and matches could be played all over and spectators could go with them
Women - Post-industrial Britain
Start of 19th century:
- Restricted by their roles (housewives)
- Dependant on husband - need to marry
- Many thought education was pointless
- Most professions refused entry for women
End of the 19th century:
- Women could not be expected to marry, shortage often due to the war
- Series of female education pioneers
- Led to a wide movement of women’s rights, work and voting this led to more taking part in PE in school
Education (working class) - Post-industrial Britain
- Most had little interest in education
- Child labour was common but most parent didn’t want their children to go to school because it would reduce their income as children often worked
- Uneducated people did not get complex rules
- Education act 1870: Beginning of the national system of state education. It required new elementary schools nationwide (usually run by churches)
- Since this, more people got involved in sport as they could understand more complex rules
Education (upper class) - Post-industrial Britain
- Had little interest in educating the peasants, they wanted to remain in power
- Revolutions across Europe hardened the need to control the working class
- Middle/upper class when to public (private) schools
19th century public schools:
- Exclusive to the sons of the gentry
- Strict boarding schools - lots of rules
- Housing system (pastoral care) in houses
- High fees, academic staff, good facilities
- Boys brought their local games and rules
- One set of rules were clarified
- Lots of time and space to play (large grounds)
- Very strict and bullying
- High tuition fees
- Fagging system
Fagging system
Cruel exploitation of younger boys who were used as servants for the older boys, often bullied and many parents complained about this behaviour
Cult of athleticism
Idea of ‘muscular christianity’ linked sport with being a Christian gentleman. Established a link between sport and moral ethic character. Combination of physical endeavour or trying hard and more integrity, being an honourable sportsman
Law and order - Post-industrial Britain
Working class:
- More defined rules effected their activities
- Led to a decline in blood sports e.g. fighting as well as mob football. They were not ‘acceptable’
- Began to play against others - more educated
Upper class:
- They were the law makers so they could keep the sports they enjoyed such as hunting
- Although some of these were deemed as cruel and the working class had no say
- Still a power divide, upper class dictated how the working class lived their lives
Change in the 20th century
- Science and technology innovations
- Societies became richer
- Growth in cities (urbanisation)
- More leisure time/less work
- Sport included in national curriculum
- Stress due to wars and terriorism
Social class
- Still influenced society
- Divisions were more vague
- Those who watched football were mostly well behaved
Time 20th century
- People gradually had more time
- Weekly features (Saturday 3pm) creation of leagues
- Water polo and pigeon racing now played/watched
Little space in cities so sports fields were used lots