Assignment Guidance – Sociocultural Issues in Sport and Exercise Science
Task 1: Learning Aim B: Investigate the historical and cultural changes and the social and ethical issues that impacted on sport and exercise development in the UK.

Create a poster introducing and discussing two topics in the historical and cultural changes and three topics in the social and ethical changes in the UK and their impact on sport and exercise.

You must include information on the:
(2) Historical and cultural changes on sport – including urbanization and industrialization
(3) Social and ethical issues in the UK – including social issues, crime, discrimination, health, employment, participation initiatives and ethical issues.

History and Culture
What is urbanization and industrialization?
What happened in sport from the 1500’s to the 200’s?
Consider preindustrial leisure
Consider preindustrial times in terms of life and sport
Who is Dr Thomas Arnold?
What impact did he have in sport?
What changed because of Thomas Arnold?
Consider of the industrial times moving to the modernising times.
What changes happened in each of these eras in terms of sport?
The Development of PE
What happened within the development of PE?
In what years did specific changes occur?
What impact did these changes have on PE?
How have TV and internet impacted sport?
What are the benefits of sporting participation?

Discrimination
What is discrimination?
How does sport impact crime within society?
What challenges do we face with disability within sport?
How has racism been seen in sport?
What do you think could be implemented to change/impact/reduce the amount of racism in sport?
What other examples of racism in sport can you think of?
What sexism incidences have occurred in sport?
How are men and women seen in sport?
What is the ‘this girl can initiative’?

What is a sporting initiative?
What examples of sporting initiatives can you think of? (Pick 2 – explain them)
What are the different aspects of sporting initiatives?
Ethical Issues in Sport
What are ethical issues?
What impact does excellence and elitism have in terms of ethical issues in sport?
What is performer violence?
How can this be addressed in sport?
What is spectator violence?
How can this be addressed in sport?
What are performance enhancing drugs?
Pick an example – what implications did they face?
What is match fixing?
How can this be addressed?
What is spot fixing?
How can this be addressed?