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To what extent is sport like work?
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To what extent is sport like work? The question I am to argue is "to what extent is sport like work". I will be discussing both reasons for and against. I will be discussing the reading by Coakley, Snyder, Spreitzer, Brohm, Rigauer and Beal. Sociology helps us when it comes to lo0oking at sport as a social phenomenon. It provides us with concepts, theoretical approaches and research methods for describing and understanding human behaviour and social interactions as they occur in social and cultural contexts (Coakley 1998). The critical perspective of sociology is that it provides us with a fresh way of looking at the questions, which are obvious. To understand sociology we need to understand culture. Coakley describes culture as "the ways of life of a group or society" (Coakley 1998). Culture is something, which we share, and consists of norm and values. Norms are the guidelines for conduct in...
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