Codification of sport
What Codification of sport means in Physical Education A-Level, as defined for AQA.
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The orderly, codified and respectable sport that the middle class drove through rational recreation.
The development of clubs, fixtures and standardised rules for sports, carried out by universities.
Topics that use Codification of sport
- Industrial and post-industrial (1780–1900) (AQA A-Level)
Related terms
- Access, patronage and participation
- Amateurism and payment
- Athleticism
- Class and racial inequality in sport access
- Governance and regulation
- Gradual and limited expansion of women's participation
- Imperial expansion and global trade
- Industrialisation and changing leisure time
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