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Guttmann Classification Essay Modern sports have demonstrated some primary characteristics that make them specifically modern; these can be best understood in contrast to earlier forms of sports. To understand differences between older and modern day sports, it is necessary to recognize the changing nature of society of which those sports forms are apart. Allen Guttmann has carefully classified the earliest forms of sport in 1978. Several typologies have been developed offering a valuable classification of the features of modern day sport. "The main achievement of the Guttman classification is that it highlights, in an illuminating comparative framework, the specificity of the nature of sport in different and distinctive social context" (Horne et al 1999). The framework that Guttmann produced, attempts to establish how sports cultures and forms diverge across time, from primitive times to present. Guttman believes that sport is socially constructed and not a chronological event or societal occurrence. Throughout this...

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