Sport

As a result of globalization nationalism is becoming outdated and the function of sport in making nations gradually weakening. Though global sport has offered elementary confront to national and local sport it has also helped in the creation of an opportunity for sport to be more global. Sports have helped a lot in many instances and its relationship with nationalism is conspicuous.  Among the positive impact of sports that have been witnessed are reconciliation, ethnic and civic reforms, it also provides safe exit of emotions among the perturbed people, formation of cultural nationalism among others.

Though Police have helped in internationalism as they have remained the envoy of the citizens within the borders, sport  national governing bodies  and agencies also continue to play a major role as far as governing body of sport within countries is concerned basing it on international decisions. As far as most people argue that a solitary sport only represents a single nation it is not logic as certain games like shinty, American football continues to flourish.

Fukuyama in 1992 championed the cause of globalised society in which the state of a nation is viewed antiquated. On the other hand, Hirst and Thompson in 1999 argued that the function of the nation state remains essential as far as international governance is concerned. Due to power instilled to nation states they remain influential to both populations and territory. Populations have remained the subject of concern to the citizenship of a national state. The challenge that should be addressed in sports is to traverse the boundaries of bigotry and recognize sport loyalties in both national and regional aspect. Relationship between nationalism, sport and national identities needs to be analyzed in terms of place and time Government and policies do change but the needs hardly change. A question of whether the needs really remain unchanged is an area of controversy but the rational direction remains under social psychology. The dissertation of individualization has not only spread to sociology but in sport market as well. Sport is mostly a matter of social dealings and depends greatly on social indicators.

The theory of individualization in the grounds of socio-history it alleges that modernity has indistinct all social related relations thus making individual choice a not only a dominant but also a determinant. According to Anthony Giddens inscription on self identity the theory of individualization is one that is factual. Jarvies study depicts to the theory of individualization though not in opposition with the reduction of social capital.
Logically both the theory on individualization as far as sport is concerned is deviation of liberal philosophy. It portrays clearly that everybody is a maker of her or his own fortune. Jarvie however brazens out the theory reasoning on what happens in sports triangle and market as Sport bustle follows commercial and public patterns at the same time and in inconsistency. On mainstream sports where American nation and Mexicans are concerned individualization is highly questionable as sport can only be termed as arena for contradictions.
Study of sports leads from knowledge to action and the story on sports is a topic for discussion on the kind of society we would want for the future generations. Relationship between sport and nationalism has depicted the influence it would have on the changing system of the world power operating from global to high levels. Sport has a lot of benefit in that it creates a sense of belonging between people of different hemisphere.