As Stanley Eitzen clearly portrayed in his paper; sports is one of the few, if not only, ways for an upwards social mobility. “This is because of shrinking of the middle class and a greater inequality gap” as quoted by Eitzen, simply sums up why sports is one of few methods of catapulting social mobility. This holds true because in our society the gap to pass into a higher social class is extremely hard surpass, however organized sports helps athletes break this gap. If organized sports were to be outlawed or banned in American society, we would see a lot more of economical turmoil with a a spiraling effect. The effect would be the worst for the minorities that reside in America, because as Eitzen stated that minorities heavily rely on sports
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The first is the highest tier of the classes, the 1% of people that make up the upper class. The 1% seems mind-numbing low however as Woods says” members of this class control approximately 35% of the nation’s wealth.” Due to the fact that these people have plethora amounts of money at their disposal, so they have the highest participation in sports. They generally have the highest rate of attending live games and also participating in games for leisure and fun. Next class social class that Woods describes is the upper-middle class. This includes the white-collar professionals. The upper-middle class also has enough money at their expense, so they normally participate in recreational sports at private clubs, which aren’t available for everyone. The last two classes are the middle class and lower class. The middle class is the largest social class in America; this includes the skilled workers such as professors, armed forces. The last is the lower class, as described by Woods “who essentially do work that is assigned and supervised by others”. The middle and lower class tend to attend team community sports. This is because team sports are not as costly and can accommodate many more …show more content…
However the two strongest arguments that he proposes are myth 3 and 6: a professional sport career is possible, and a professional sports career provides security for life, respectively. The reason why I think myth 3 is one of his strongest is because he simply states facts and he lets these facts do the talking for him. He bombards the reader with such entailing facts that just can be overlooked. For example, “ 1.7 perfect of senior football players will be drafted by an NFL.” This quotes leads me the next myth he covers. That even thought these 1.7 percent make it to the NFL teams, this doesn’t guarantee them prosperity after retirement. “A Sports Illustrated investigation found that 78 percent former NFL players were bankrupt or were under financial distress”. This just reinforces the fact that even though these players make it to the professional levels, they are never taught the need of financial responsibility. His weakest argument has to be myth 1: “Sport Provides a Free College Education”. I believe that this one is the weakest argument because of the fact that it seems as if he is prolonging about an issue that isn’t really an issue that needs to be addressed at this
The first is the highest tier of the classes, the 1% of people that make up the upper class. The 1% seems mind-numbing low however as Woods says” members of this class control approximately 35% of the nation’s wealth.” Due to the fact that these people have plethora amounts of money at their disposal, so they have the highest participation in sports. They generally have the highest rate of attending live games and also participating in games for leisure and fun. Next class social class that Woods describes is the upper-middle class. This includes the white-collar professionals. The upper-middle class also has enough money at their expense, so they normally participate in recreational sports at private clubs, which aren’t available for everyone. The last two classes are the middle class and lower class. The middle class is the largest social class in America; this includes the skilled workers such as professors, armed forces. The last is the lower class, as described by Woods “who essentially do work that is assigned and supervised by others”. The middle and lower class tend to attend team community sports. This is because team sports are not as costly and can accommodate many more …show more content…
However the two strongest arguments that he proposes are myth 3 and 6: a professional sport career is possible, and a professional sports career provides security for life, respectively. The reason why I think myth 3 is one of his strongest is because he simply states facts and he lets these facts do the talking for him. He bombards the reader with such entailing facts that just can be overlooked. For example, “ 1.7 perfect of senior football players will be drafted by an NFL.” This quotes leads me the next myth he covers. That even thought these 1.7 percent make it to the NFL teams, this doesn’t guarantee them prosperity after retirement. “A Sports Illustrated investigation found that 78 percent former NFL players were bankrupt or were under financial distress”. This just reinforces the fact that even though these players make it to the professional levels, they are never taught the need of financial responsibility. His weakest argument has to be myth 1: “Sport Provides a Free College Education”. I believe that this one is the weakest argument because of the fact that it seems as if he is prolonging about an issue that isn’t really an issue that needs to be addressed at this