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Conceptualising Sport, Science and Society Flashcards

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Title of SPEX 101 paper

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Sport, Science and Society

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Illusions of sports arrows

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illusions/myths impacts facts and reality and people values, behaviours etc

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Paradigms

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someones view/perspective

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C. Wright Mills view on how we see the world

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we need to connect private experience with wider social structures, personal problems with public issues

in other words we need to look at the world from different views

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Why study sport (8)

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  • history
  • is a business
  • popular
  • promote language and culture
  • a social problem and solution
  • avoid cultural bias
  • funding
  • research
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Sport GDP

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contributes 2.8% or equal to the dairy sector and $5.2billion dollars

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The Great Sports Myth

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sport is inherently pure and good

the purity and goodness of sport is transmitted to those who play or consume it

sport always leads to individual and community development

= GSM

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Challenges of studying sport

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  • GSM = good
  • not taken seriously
  • everybody is an expert
  • not one like when sport it critiqued
  • people are jealous of sport
  • sport exceptionalism
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Sport Exceptionalism

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assumptions that creates a belief that sport is essential for society

eg. covid and tokyo

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Sport Definiton (5)

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goal directed
accepted rules
institutionalised
physical skill
prowess

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Why does the definition of sport matter

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  • concepts for research
  • avoiding cultural bias
  • funding
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Contested Terrain

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different groups fighting, not just over space, but about ideas a beliefs

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Contested Terrain and Women in sport in the early days

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18/19th Century: the working class women had to time or money to play sport so only the middle and upper class women played sport, yet they still had restrictions

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Donnelley’s Reading: Categories of Resistance Through Sport

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  1. self conscious political protests
  2. opposition to colonial rule
  3. cultural opposition/resistance
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Self Conscious Political Protest

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  • protesting
    using big sport moments to make a political statement
  • olympics and the cost to run them
  • homelessness
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Opposition to colonial rule

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Cricket is a colonised sport that was brought to Trobriand Island however they transformed the sport to their own adaption and mock the british

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Cultural opposition/resistance example

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alternative sports

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Hegemony

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a form of power that operated through consent verus coercion

(free will to participate instead of forced)

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Where does common sense come from

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what is considered natural to us

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Sport and the Great Experiment

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elite sport is an experiment carried out on humans

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Early Sport Science and the Treadmill (5)

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1818 - the treadmill was invented as a torture device for punishing prisinors

1870s - research focused on athletes as experiments
- curiosity
- work productivity
- military
- sport performance

1895 - 1st world championship and experiments of physiological stress

= natural limits vs expanding biological limits

human = machine

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Why sport matters to citizens

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  • health
  • economy
  • identity
  • strength
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how many schools in china have 10 hours of training per day

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3000

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number of registered bball players in china

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300 million

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What factors are enhancing improved sport performance

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  • technology
  • body types
  • drugs
  • body enhancements
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Reading: Sport in the future (5)

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  1. able bodied, unassisted
  2. assisted by technology
  3. robot athletes
  4. mental athletes
  5. virtual athletes
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Transhumanism

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the current human form does not represent the end of our development

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% of the word the will be classified as obese by 2035

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51%

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NZ is the ___ worst nation for obesity rates

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4th

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% of NZ that is considered active

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34%

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Fraction or kids/adults in NZ that are obese

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1/3

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On the Biomedical View of Obesity what is a cause that is missing of it

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power of corporation (govt policies)
advertising and marketing

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The Obesity Paradox

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whilst so many people are obese so many people experience malnutrition

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Obesity in increasing but

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  • many are reducing calories and fat in diets
  • more are exercising
  • life expectancies have increase
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Obesity Myths

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  • diets generally don’t work
  • weight and health are not the same
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Obesity Realities

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  • 4-5 year olds are worried about getting fat now
  • eating disorders
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Judith Collins said about obesity

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‘don’t blame the system for personal choices’

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$ spent in Auckland on fast food

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30 million

39
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Study of exposure to fast food ads

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7.4 unhealthy food advertisements per hour

within 400m of
playgrounds 33% reduction
schools 25% reduction
home areas 27%
overall reduction of 50%

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VT: The men that made us fat

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customers perceive product as healthy, so consume more of it than they would have of a unhealthy food

41
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$ Lebron makes per hour

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$4000

42
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Cost for 30s ad at the Superbowl

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$7 million

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Relationship between sport, science and society diagram

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  1. sport as a topic of study is important in its own right
  2. sport as a lens to understand society
44
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What is gene editing

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the process of making permanent changes to the DNA of an organism. This involves an alteration to the DNA, either by modifying, removing, adding DNA material to achieve an outcome, that is wanting to me be meet.

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How can gene editing be positive (3)

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  • removes bad mutations from a population
  • permanent effect, different to other medications/supplements etc
  • not just used in the medical field
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Gene Editing vs Drug Enhancements (4)

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  • both advantage an athlete
  • gene editing is harder to measure
  • drugs are only temporary
  • health and ethical concerns

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