Kevin Young Chapter 5 Flashcards

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What does RPI stand for?

A

Risk, pain, and injury.

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Who was the first to ask preliminary questions about the social, physical, and legal dimensions of risk?

A

Michael Smith.

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What did Smith approach injury as?

A

A downside to aggressive sport and sport played aggressively, rather than an autonomous field of research.

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What do Frey, Hughes and Coakley, and Nixon suggest about sport and RPI?

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Sport occurs in a cultural context tha normalises and glorifies RPI, and amid an institutional network of social relationships (Nixon: sportnets), that pressures athletes to play with pain.

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What is the culture of risk according to Nixon?

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When athletes accept the probability of minor injury and the possibility of major injury- making sacrifices for the game.

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What can injury be understood as at the professional level?

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The outcome of relationships which involve levels of both player consent and compliance, as well as employee exploitation, victimisation and abuse.

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Which sports are females less injured in in the US and Finland respectively?

A

US highschool sports: Winter sports, watersports and motorsports

Finnish: Soccer, volleyball, and basketball.

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What are some of the interpretive strategies used by male athletes to make sense of pain? (vocabularies of motive or techniques of neutralisation)

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Hidden pain (going out of one's way to ignore the pain)
Disrespected pain (adopting an attitude of irreverence to it and prioritising certain kinds of pain over others
Unwelcomed pain (understanding that pain may be unwelcome in sports settings and lead to sanctions)
Depersonalised pain (adopting a particular way of thinking and speaking about pain that allows one's sense of invulnerability to persist.
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How much higher is the risk of injury in English professional soccer players than the risk to laborers working in blue collar settings according to Hawkins and Fuller?

A

1000 times greater.

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10
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What is chronic traumatic encephalopathy?

A

A progressive neurological disorder caused from repeated violent blows to the head that damage brain tissue.

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