test 1 Flashcards
What are sources of historical info?
primary, secondary
things that have been written about primary (books, pictures)
secondary
why study history
people are interpreting history differently
gives us the Depiction of athletic feet and Represents the culture of the time and how they value athleticism
Great works of literature such as The Iliad and The Odyssey
The thoughts and ideas of ancient philosophers like Socrates and Plato
The role they had in connection with sports/games/play
Great architectural monuments like the pyramids of Egypt, the Parthenon in Athens or the Colosseum in Rome
monuments
Sport is the larger domain
Game is under sport
Play is under game
All sport is play, but not all play is sport
In French, the word de(s)porter has its roots in the Latin word deportare, which mean
“to amuse oneself”
Modern term first used in England around A.D. 1440
Origin of the word is Latin and French
Grew throughout England referring to competition in the form of games, individual athletic exploits and hunting.
Sport
play Has three fundamental characteristics:
- Play is intrinsically motivated
-Play involves the temporary suspensions of normal/ typical reality
-Play involves internal locus of control
- Somewhat more organized effort at play, where the organized and playful elements of the activity become more evident; an occurrence
Game
“a play activity which has explicit rules…the element of opposition or contest, recognizable boundaries in time and sometimes in space, and a sequence of actions which is essentially “repeatable” every time the game is played”.
game
is a pattern
sport
○ Continuity: refers to the longevity of the game
○ Division of roles
○ Dynamic interaction with an audience
○ Supporting establishment( sponsors)
sport
the study of change, over time
History
the study of how sport has changed (or not) over time
Sport history
“just the facts”
Objective
Detailed account of what happened in the past
Descriptive
Provides the who, what, when and where of the past
Descriptive
Attempts to explain the how and the why of events of what happened in the past
Interpretive
Introduces the narrator’s perspective into the interpretation
Interpretive
explains and interprets the changes that took place in American sport more than a hundred years ago and continue to occur
Modernization theory
involves where ppl live
Urbanization and industrialism
Fine-tune knowledge of diet and exercise to
help achieve peak performance.