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Using Conflict and Feminist theory to discuss the role of sport, and women in sporting society.  

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Using Conflict and Feminist theory to discuss the role of sport, and women in sporting society. Student Name: Craig Boags Course: Sociology of Sport and Leisure Lecturer: Professor Alan Clarke Using Conflict and Feminist theory to discuss the role of sport, and women in sporting society. Theories are important in helping to understand sports role in society. Two theories are going to be discussed in this essay; they are the Conflict theory and the Feminist theory. These are going to be used to explore how sport contributes to society and social order along with women's role in sport. To investigate this, conflict and feminist theories were chosen because they will contrast each other giving a fair assessment of the topic. Conflict theorists place high amounts of emphasis on social class whereas; a Feminists' view believes that sport is gendered. In this report the two chosen theories will investigate the relationship between both sport and women paying...

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