Sport and Socialization

In American Sport in the 21st century on September 19th, we talked about sport and socialization. We first discussed the agents of sport socialization. The agents consist of family, peer group, school, community, and mass media. All of these agents are important to a child's introduction into a new sport. The agents all provide different insight to a child  when he or she is wanting to either try a new sport or get better at the one that they play.





In the article If I Were a Parent: Teaching Kids to be Good in Sports, the author Kelly Wallace talks about parents of children who participate in sports. Your parents can be considered the main agent. They are the ones who initially get you involved in sports. She mainly focuses on parents teaching their children good sportsmanship. In class on September 19th, we talked about socialization into sport. In this lecture, we talked about how strong of an influence parents have on their children when they first start playing sports. For example, in the article it says how children aren’t very good at listening but good at imitating. So if a child sees their parent yelling at a referee, he or she might go and yell at a referee. Parents are responsible for their child and their actions. For more information on this article use the following link:
If I Were a Parent: Teaching Kids to be Good Sports