Hegemony In Sports
An Analysis of How Hegemony has contributed to the Muted Voice of Woman Participants As Coaches and Administrators
Winona State University
Abstract
This paper is going to be about how females have been ignored and looked down on in the sports world. Since Title IX of the Educational Amendments gave women the right to play the number of women coaching women dropped since 1972. Why? This paper will break it down while applying a few theories to show that there is a problem, also these theories will give us a better understand of what’s actually going on and why the decline of women coaches has gone down since Title IX. Will look into the potential solutions to help …show more content…
The quantity of coverage is a small portion compared to the coverage of males. In a way, the media is influencing the viewing audiences with which of the two events they want you to watch, which was of better quality, and the goal in the long run is to build an audience of viewers. Television networks do have the ability to build audiences, and they choose to with men’s sports. On the other hand, several women athletes consider they can’t get the exposure needed to win over large numbers of fans unless they give the fans another reason for coming to their sporting events besides observing athletic ability (Erik 2009). Because females are now identified and valued more for how they look than how they …show more content…
Muted group theory is people belonging to low power groups who must change their language when communicating publicly, thus their ideas are often overlooked (Griffin 2012). Muted group theory is an explanation of why some groups seem to have a voice and why some do not in our society. In our society females seem not to have a voice in the sports world. Even though females have come a long way to gain and earn respect females are still looked down on. Female’s words and thoughts are discounted in our society, because man-made language aids in defining, depreciating, and excluding women to make them the muted group. Muted group theory argues that language is man-made and excludes women, and that if women cease to be muted, men will no longer be dominant in society. Being the muted group society in a way makes the females seem that they are invisible. This comes back to tie in with agenda setting theory because media plays a huge part in influencing on how we think and act. Muted-Group theory because it agrees with the thought that if women cease to be silent, men will no longer be dominant in society. Now, this does not mean that their viewpoint is silent to others, it simply means that others in opposition choose to ignore it. Hegemony comes in why they ignore it ? It’s just how things
Winona State University
Abstract
This paper is going to be about how females have been ignored and looked down on in the sports world. Since Title IX of the Educational Amendments gave women the right to play the number of women coaching women dropped since 1972. Why? This paper will break it down while applying a few theories to show that there is a problem, also these theories will give us a better understand of what’s actually going on and why the decline of women coaches has gone down since Title IX. Will look into the potential solutions to help …show more content…
The quantity of coverage is a small portion compared to the coverage of males. In a way, the media is influencing the viewing audiences with which of the two events they want you to watch, which was of better quality, and the goal in the long run is to build an audience of viewers. Television networks do have the ability to build audiences, and they choose to with men’s sports. On the other hand, several women athletes consider they can’t get the exposure needed to win over large numbers of fans unless they give the fans another reason for coming to their sporting events besides observing athletic ability (Erik 2009). Because females are now identified and valued more for how they look than how they …show more content…
Muted group theory is people belonging to low power groups who must change their language when communicating publicly, thus their ideas are often overlooked (Griffin 2012). Muted group theory is an explanation of why some groups seem to have a voice and why some do not in our society. In our society females seem not to have a voice in the sports world. Even though females have come a long way to gain and earn respect females are still looked down on. Female’s words and thoughts are discounted in our society, because man-made language aids in defining, depreciating, and excluding women to make them the muted group. Muted group theory argues that language is man-made and excludes women, and that if women cease to be muted, men will no longer be dominant in society. Being the muted group society in a way makes the females seem that they are invisible. This comes back to tie in with agenda setting theory because media plays a huge part in influencing on how we think and act. Muted-Group theory because it agrees with the thought that if women cease to be silent, men will no longer be dominant in society. Now, this does not mean that their viewpoint is silent to others, it simply means that others in opposition choose to ignore it. Hegemony comes in why they ignore it ? It’s just how things