The document discusses how culture shapes American youth soccer and how past problems still persist despite attempted solutions. It argues that a critical examination of culture is needed to understand why real change has not occurred. Solutions that have been tried have not addressed the complex problems because they do not fully account for the influence of culture. The presentation aims to analyze American youth soccer through the lens of cultural factors.
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Culture in soccer
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Another boat, another broken oar
A critical look at how culture shapes
American youth soccer
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How we think frames and anchors what we do
Any one that has been around American youth soccer for the past 40 years shouldn’t
fail to grasp that some things haven’t changed. The problems of the 1970’s; bad parent
coaches, pay to play, 70% dropout rate and idiot parents are still here. Nothing much
has changed on the solution side either. Technological fad’s, 12 step programs and Best
Practice-technical curriculums come and go. Repeating the past and expecting change
is not a prescription for success but a description of insanity.
How can this be? Many smart, well meaning people have worked hard, for a long time
for change, yet outside of the gloss and hype have achieved very little. The 10%
improvement. This is not just nostalgic reflection. What’s going on today is just an
update of past solutions while the problems have become even more complex. Doing
the wrong things better only takes you farther from the right things.
This presentation look’s at American youth soccer through the lens of culture. We’re
past the stage of blind optimism and wishful thinking. They don’t work. For real
change it’s time to get serious and employ a critical examination that takes our culture
into account. Only then can the search for progress have any chance of success.
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Summary
“Culture is not made up but something that evolves which is
human.”
“Everything man is and does is modified by learning and is
therefore malleable. But once learned, these behavior patterns,
these habitual responses, these ways of interacting gradually
sink below the surface of the mind and, like the admiral of a
submerged submarine fleet, control from the depths.”
Edward T. Hall
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Slide notes – talking points
3. Boyd’s OODA loop: cycles &
loops, culture
4. Edward T. Hall: oblique, counter-
culture, ism’s
5. Robert Pirsig: culture bearing,
trinities, quality
6. Marianne Paget: new normal,
diagnose
7. Allegory of the cave: ideals,
experts, STEM, objectification
8. John Boyd: Destruction &
Creation, implicit-explicit
9. Venkatesh Rao: double Freitag,
Tempo, reification
10. Yin Yang, Goldratt: scaling, time
scales, strategy-tactics, Theory of
Constraints
11. Arnold: product v. process
12. Sun Tzu, Ali: active opponent,
USMC
13. Ludwig von Bertalanffy: systems
14. Luhmann: boundaries, flowing
edge, two levels higher, hard-soft
15. Bernstein & Shannon:
harmonizing, feed forward-
feedback, noise, sensitivity-
discrimination
16. Norbert Weiner, Heinz von
Foerster: second order
cybernetics, spiral
17. Nassim Taleb: chance
18. Thomas Kuhn: paradigms
19. Gigerenzer & James Allen: interval
logic, heuristics, stopping point,
time scales
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Slide notes
20. Karl Popper: Clocks & Clouds
21. Brian Sutton-Smith: frames and
anchors of play
22. Sophistry: rhetoric's as persuasion
23. Stan Franklin: serial & parallel
processing, ideas & concepts
24. Gary Klein: optimization, leverage
points, heuristics, switch task
25. Vickers & Khaneman: attention
26. Goffman & Lacan: the selves &
Big Other
27. Clausewitz: friction, beautiful
trinity
28. Ideas: mythos becomes logos,
reification
29. Technology: human, non-human
30. Rittel & Webber: problems
31. Machiavelli: politics, real v.
theoretical-dualism
32. Adam Smith: C2, leadership
33. George Ritzer: McDonaldization,
bureaucrat, ideologue
34. Eisenhower: SIAC, capitalism,
new, mistrust
35. Lewis Powell: EILC, obedience,
passive consumers, low bar,
mistrust