Sports and Socialization
Becoming Involved in Sports
Sports and Socialization
By Blaze Foster
In class on September 18, 2012, we discussed the importance of socialization in sports. Parents, older siblings and role models have a big impact on how a child will grow up. Socialization is a process of learning and social development that occurs as we interact with one another and become familiar with the social world in which we live in. In the video, it shows that everything the child sees the adult or parent do, the child wants to imitate or copy what the adult just did. As stated in the article, the primary agent of socialization and the first “educator”, is the family,
a family plays an essential role in the transmission of the fundamental values that
encourage and nurture learning in a young child. I agree with the article, that there are individuals that follow in their parents footsteps. A player like Kobe Bryant would be a good example. Kobe had the luxury of seeing his father play professional basketball while growing up as a child., which most likely influenced Kobe to become a professional basketball player, at a young age.
According to Coakley's text on page 94, explains how the model of socialization found that there are three key factors in to why individuals participate in sports. People become likely to play sports depending on the influence of parents, siblings, teachers, peers and role models. Another reason why people participate in sports is the availability of opportunity to play sports, in a way that's personally satisfying. Lastly the individuals abilities, characteristics and resources to play the sport. Ingham (1999), in Coakley's text, page 97 expresses that we should take into account individuals perception of how participating in a sport, is related to there growth and development, and to which how the participation is reasoned in their culture.
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