Physical Education A-Level
Social class differences in access to sport
What Social class differences in access to sport means in Physical Education A-Level, as defined for AQA.
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Middle-class women had more opportunity than working-class women, whose long factory hours left little leisure, though their sport was usually private, genteel and non-competitive.
Topics that use Social class differences in access to 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
- Codification of sport
- Governance and regulation
- Gradual and limited expansion of women's participation
- Imperial expansion and global trade
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