ARTICLES ANALYSIS

Articles Analysis



Articles Analysis

Article 01: Global games: culture, political economy and sport in the globalised world of the 21st century

Argument

The main argument of the paper is based on the role of sports in making the world globalized. Sports play a very vital role in the regeneration of a global culture in international as well as regional and local world also.

Summary

The article Global games: culture, political economy and sport in the globalised world of the 21st century is written by John Nauright. In this article author focuses on the importance of different sports in generating a global culture. He has given several examples like Olympic games, cricket, soccer world cups etc. in this article author highlighted the transformation of sports and sports culture among different regions of the world. In 21st century, Sportive nationalism strengthened the nations and invite the states towards the global hierarchy of nations. The author also focuses on the role of media to promote this culture in entire world. By the help of different sports events teams from different culture and social background play with each other in different regions of the world. These sports events help the counties to negotiate on their foreign policies as well as there are several other political matters become solve through these events. By the help of several mega-events also differentiated the financial as well as the social benefits of the host countries. In this article, author specially focuses on the African society. Author also discusses the case of the Salt Lake City Winter Olympics in 2002. Whereas, the other part of the article is based on the ethnicity of countries, according to author ethnicity in this context play a very vital and positive role by promoting the events.

Example

Author prove his argument by using several examples like the example of Sydney, the moment of the Games were awarded to Sydney, local resident groups and indigenous people more broadly responded. Protests and meetings took place in the lead-up to the Games; yet these voices were quickly silenced within

Article Contribute

The article contributes towards the emergence of structural changes that has happened because of these sports events. The article also provides evidences that helped to appreciate the role of sports team in the emergence of culture globally.

Article 02: Is Inequality Good For You? NO

Argument

The main argument of the paper is based on the inequality in terms of health and monthly income. According to the author inequality is the root cause of every social problem. According to the author the unequal societies will never be happy and successful.

Summary

The article, is inequality good for you? No is written by Michael Prowse. In this article author discusses the harmful effects of smoking on the health of an individual. According to the author, Smoking causes lung cancer is no longer a controversial proposition. Author also discusses the problems of the concept of total health inequality is that it includes all changes in the health of a population, without taking a position on ...