ABSTRACT
Socialisation into sport does not happen in isolation from the rest of society. ‘Sport is a social representation of historical, social and cultural forces, and at the same time it affirms, legitimates and reproduces those very same conditions. In other words, sport reproduces social reality and transmits those aspects of culture that convey meanings about the social, political and the economic order of society; about gender, race, and class relations; about the body and physical activity’ (Greendorfer and Bruce, 1991:137).
