The skateboard has had a great impact on today’s society, economy, and culture. On this page we will discuss different aspects of the impact.
With the invention of the skateboard, came the uprise of the community to combat violence by making skate parks.
With the rise of skateboards, there became a rise in the term ‘D.I.Y’. According to the tandonline website, “Street skaters are often portrayed or refer to themselves as being ‘self-made’; this D.I.Y. ideal purports that skateboarding is a socially democratic enterprise where individuals can freely participate and construct unique styles, practices and identities.”
For the most part, the skateboarding world is dominated by men. You always see pictures of men skateboarding, advertisements with men in them. In the past couple of years women have tried to come on the scene. Women struggle to get any notoriety in the skating world, they are seen as “skate Betty’s” which are skate groupies.
References
Atencio, Matthew, Becky Beal, and Charlene Wilson. 2009. “The Distinction of Risk: Urban
Skateboarding, Street Habitus and the Construction of Hierarchical Gender Relations,” January. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19398440802567907.
Howell, Ocean. 2001. “The Poetics of Security: Skateboarding, Urban Design, And the New Public Space.” 2001. http://urbanpolicy.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Howell_2001_Poetics-of-Security_NoPix.pdf