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The Present

The measurement of sport’s contribution within minority communities reflects the
aspects of social capacity, social cohesion and social capital. There are number of Tamil
Sports related organisations exists in the UK operating for many years including; a
handful number of OBA’s claiming to be contributing to the society.

Is that factual?

The entries I am making in this section seek to address such issues at various levels of
our community’s impact due to differing attitudes to social and cultural integration.

We all want to engage and contribute which is an astonishing attribute of our culture
but many of us seem to divert from the original goal setting then bring in our own self
invented agendas to disrupt the common goals.

Every culture has a set of customs, rules, and laws which are for the most part obeyed.
But in every culture and society there are always people who refuse to follow the rules.

The Structural Strain Theory explains that deviance as a result of social strains put
on people. The root of Structural Strain theory lies in the anomaly, a condition of
confusion when social norms are weak or conflicting.

Apart from the above individual behaviours, we can also confidently say that a sport The root of Structural
is often associated to politics. Analytically, we can divide sports politics into two Strain theory lies
in the anomaly,
categories: sports in politics and politics in sports. a condition of
confusion when
social norms are
Major organisations and associations are always built in with a sports committee or
weak or conflicting.
a sports subcommittee who can make imperceptible power over elected bodies or
administrators.

The Future

Generally the community’s iconic figures don’t have a long term vision. They seem to
lose track and change their goal posts as often as they like. This naturally creates upsets,
unrest and grievance amongst the followers.

My point here is that all of us need to be aware of what are we trying to achieve? Is
your respective organisation playing the role of volunteering in developing pro-social
behaviours and organisational cohesion; or are they looking for peer relationships
particularly Social Inclusion Partnership (SIP) areas. Don’t confuse yourself. Be clear
on what the mission is, no one would blame you for this.

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