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Sports Commentators and Late Monopoly Capitalist Indoctrination in the United States

New Proposals: Journal of Marxism and Interdisciplinary Inquiry

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Title Sports Commentators and Late Monopoly Capitalist Indoctrination in the United States
 
Creator Packwood, Kirk
 
Subject Anthropology; Marxism; ideology
ideology; Marxism; sports; sports commentary; indoctrination
 
Description This Marxist-oriented ideological study describes how sports commentary ‘layered’ on top of team sporting events serves as a capitalist mass indoctrination method in the United States of America. Despite a general mass consensus to the contrary, popular team sporting events which employ sports commentators are not politically neutral events. The mass media and corporations use sports commentators to politically charge sporting events in order to subtly program the viewing population into accepting capitalist ideological tenets and norms. Capitalist indoctrination embedded within modern sports commentary is particularly effective because of its subtle nature. Capitalist norms are taught within the context and framework of particular sporting events and superimposed over events occurring on the field of play. The majority of the conservative ideology embedded within sports commentary is related to the glorification and maintenance of extreme social stratification based on held or achieved power.
 
Publisher New Proposals Publishing Society
 
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Date 2010-03-25
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
research-article
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://ojs.library.ubc.ca/index.php/newproposals/article/view/332
 
Source New Proposals: Journal of Marxism and Interdisciplinary Inquiry; Vol 4, No 1 (2010); 35-47
1715-6718
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://ojs.library.ubc.ca/index.php/newproposals/article/view/332/1978
 
Coverage United States of America
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