ABSTRACT
This chapter highlights that sport is built upon a competitive, capitalistic, exclusionary model. It is a model that was developed in response to the Industrial Revolution and it gives some people overwhelming power compared to others: the workers and players. The utility of Marxism in sociology is paramount. Marxism has inspired countless similar theories, and, at some level, it's likely fair to say that almost all sociologists use Marxist thinking in their examination and analysis of sport. By emphasizing sport to a racialized lower-class citizenry, there are fewer students to compete with kids from white, middle- and upper-class areas for college entrance and other career opportunities. Even when high-school athletes earn a college scholarship, they are not free from the exploitation. Here, they continue to make money for the owners, sacrificing their own labor power.
