The Influence of Sport in the Context of Creating, Maintaining and Challenging Ethnic Identities and Stereotypes

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The writer looks at the role of sport, and in particular soccer, to examine the way it can reflect as well as influence social values and attitudes. The paper starts by looking at the way in which sport can help to support individual and community identities and goes on to discuss the way sporting events may have a direct and indirect impacts on social attitudes, for example helping to reduce racism. Numerous examples are utilised to illustrate the points raised. Eighteen sources are cited in the bibliography of this twelve page paper.