| However, within British society not everybody would see football as ‘their’ game. |
If we look at contemporary British ‘culture’ we will probably quickly conclude that sport is an important part of the culture. In other words, it is something that many people in the society share and value.
( ① ) In addition, we would also probably conclude that the most ‘important’ sport within British culture is football. ( ② ) We would ‘know’ this from the evidence that on a daily basis there is a significant amount of ‘cultural’ activity all focused on football in terms of the amount of people who play it, watch it, read about it and talk about it. ( ③ ) It could be argued from looking at their ‘cultural’ activities and habits, that people from a middleclass background seem to prefer rugby over football, or that more women play netball than football. ( ④ ) Equally, if you went to the USA and were talking about ‘football’, most people would assume you were talking about American football rather than soccer. ( ⑤ ) From this we can conclude that different cultures produce different ways of understanding, or evaluating, human activities such as sport.
