Year 11 - Physical education
Spectator behaviour
Socio-cultural influences: ethics and behaviour
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Unit Summary
This unit will examine socio-cultural factors concerned with sportsmanship, gamesmanship and deviance in sport to understand the choices made by some sportspeople and spectators.
Lesson Summary
You will learn to explain the positive and negative influences of spectators on sports events, performance and participation.
Key Notes
- Spectators can positively influence matches by creating an exciting atmosphere and providing a home-field advantage.
- Spectators can negatively impact matches by increasing pressure on performers.
- Negative influences of spectators include the potential for crowd trouble or hooliganism and safety concerns.
- The presence of spectators can negatively affect participation rates among younger performers.
- Safety measures and crowd management are important to mitigate the negative effects of spectator behaviour.
Vocabulary To Learn
- spectator: a person who watches a sports event and can influence the atmosphere
- home-field advantage: the benefit gained from playing in a familiar environment with local support
- amateur: this term defines someone who takes part in an activity as a hobby, rather than for financial gain
- hooliganism: disorderly, aggressive and often violent behaviour by spectators at sporting events
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- Believing that spectators always have a negative effect on performance and safety and the impact of spectators is only relevant in professional sport.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the lesson in two key points.
Spectators can positively influence matches by creating an exciting atmosphere and providing a home-field advantage. Spectators can negatively impact matches by increasing pressure on performers.
2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'spectator'
a person who watches a sports event and can influence the atmosphere.
3. Correct this common mistake.
Mistake: Believing that spectators always have a negative effect on performance and safety and the impact of spectators is only relevant in professional sport. Correction: Spectators have positive contributions to sport like creating an atmosphere and providing home-field advantage which can not only affect professional sport, but also amateur and youth sport too.
More Lessons In This Unit
- Conduct of performers Study Guide
- Drugs in sport Study Guide
- Hooliganism Study Guide
- Interpretation and analysis of data and graphs related to socio-cultural issues Study Guide
- Prohibited substances and methods Study Guide
- Sportsmanship, gamesmanship and conduct of performers Study Guide
- Sportsmanship, gamesmanship and deviance Study Guide
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