After reading this chapter, you should be able to do the following:
Explain why the meaning, purpose, and organization of sports vary by time and place through history.
Explain the major differences between the characteristics of sport forms that have existed in past times and places and the characteristics of what we describe today as organized, competitive sports.
Identify how power relations have influenced how sports were defined, played, organized, and sponsored in the times and places described in the chapter.
Provide at least one example of how the stories represented in published histories of sports in society are influenced by the perspectives of those who tell the stories.
Identify the major changes that occurred in the meanings, purpose, and organization of sports as the United Kingdom changed from an agricultural to an industrial society.
Identify the connections between organized, competitive sports in the 20th Century and emerging ideas about character development, masculinity and femininity, skin colour and ethnicity, age, and disability.
Identify the sport-related issues and problems that emerged in the first half of the 20th Century and that still remain issues and problems in sports today.
Identify a few key events in the history of sports between 1920 and 2000, and explain how they are related to others changes in UK society.
Explain how words were used in the past to separate people with disabilities from the mainstream of society and why it is important to avoid using those words today.
Give three examples of how the meaning, purpose, and organization of sports have been the focus of struggles since 1920.
