The term environment cannot in itself be easily defined. Human activity has affected virtually all of the “natural” environment, leaving little of the natural world as it once was.
Environment
Economics and Public Policy
Economics has a profound influence on the world of sport. This influence is especially felt in the most popular spectator sports where the players are paid professionals and the teams are firms.
Country Club
Country clubs are leisure establishments that exist in most communities in North America and across the globe.They provide sports and community for their members. The term country club conjures images of privilege, separation, elitism, and difference.
Cooperation
Cooperation occurs when people work or play together to accomplish shared goals. Cooperation may seem an ironic entry in an encyclopedia of sport because most definitions of sport emphasize competition between opposing groups.
Competition
Competition occurs in social relationships in which comparisons of performances are made according to shared standards, such that performances can be objectively evaluated and ranked.
Community
“Community” is one of the most common and multivalent concepts in the social sciences. At one end of the spectrum, community can refer to small, close-knit groups in which individuals have much in common, know each other intimately, and interact regularly.
Art
The incidence of sports images in art is directly related to the cultural importance of sports. When sports are considered central to the everyday lives of ordinary men and women, which was true in ancient Greece and is true, once again, in the modern world, sports figure prominently in art.
Animal Rights
For the last several decades people have been questioning long accepted beliefs about the relationship between humans and the environment.
American Sports Exceptionalism
Contrary to the widely held opinion that American exceptionalism connotes a self-aggrandizing view by Americans of themselves, the term hails from a particular body of literature that is deeply anchored in how key European intellectuals of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries characterized the main features of American politics and society in reference to those of their own.
Aesthetics
Aesthetics captures a culture’s ideas of beauty, proportion, and taste.