Sports College in Society Society being dependant on groups to stay at a stable position is what
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functionalism is. Aguste Comte perceived society as being similar to organs in a person's body that are needed to make the body function properly. Sociologists believe that the groups that make up society react and feed off of one another. The groups' actions, whether or not it is for manifest functions or the ignorance of latent dysfunctions, make it possible for that group or another group to prosper or to fall in a lower class or level of society. In society, sports play a significant factor of how we might converse; we could either agree and create a great bond through a favorite team, or we could form a civilized rival that could only be answered by which team wins. In the average household, people love professional sports, but more than likely these households will have a more passionate feeling for the favorite college team. College in itself brings a greater opportunity for people to have a higher position in the workforce. College sports help youth in poverty use their talents, athletic ability and intelligence to create opportunities for scholarships to help them get through school. These opportunities have given some of our greats sports icons a chance to go from nothing to everything. In College athletics, it is not about a bunch of kids from around the city getting together to create a team. It is about one athletic staff bringing the finest will hearted student athletes together to create a team of multi talents; talents that some, due to Darwinism, are unable to attain no matter how hard they try. In this happening, it seems inevitable that people will become rejected from their hopes and dreams. every Athletes day are weeded out by forces that are unexpected.
College Sports in Society
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Some sociologists look at our lives in a functional way. College athletics have created a manifest function that allows even students in poverty a chance to go to college and get a better education. In a latent function, college student athletics have created a gateway for their athletes to have a chance to play on a professional team. The dysfunction of college sports in our society plays a vital role on who we view as our role models and who we believe to be otherwise. For example, NFL's quarterback, Michael Vick's little brother Marcus Vick has created an image of demoralization towards his great effect in college and future NFL potential. The image that he has made has brought kids, critics and NFL agents to believe that he is not what they wish to look up to. Society as we know feeds off of college athletics, even if some people are unable to make it to the next level. The ones that are unable to make the team usually do not dislike their team; they stand by them cheering them on. College athletics is an institution created for numerous people to have a chance of being something that they could only dream of being. The functions society has given student athletes is the opportunity of a life time, one of which I am able to have. That opportunity is to have a better education. Regardless if I can become a professional athlete, I am proud to say that I am apart of a great experience that I will never forget. That experience is to become a scholar, because all in all there are very few opportunities to become a professional athlete but there is always the chance to be a successful person with a good education.