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Pros And Cons Of Sports Based Organic Communities

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Organic communities are very intimate and personal communities where a typical individual knows a large portion of the population. Sport brings the community together typically behind a common cause, therefore uniting individuals. Rituals such as pep rallies in high school and college as well as homecoming dances help encourage a sense of community through focusing on commonalities of sport in communities. On the one hand, a major positive of sport based organic communities is that they inspire a community to set aside differences and work together. On the other hand, sport based-organic communities mask and reproduce the different hierarchies that exist in these societies such as gender, sexuality, and race.

High school football is a prominent
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