Kines Final Flashcards
Social class relations are related to sports and sports participation because
organized sports and access to them depend on material resources.
In the discussion of retirement from competitive sports, the author notes that there is a growing belief that sports organizations should
assist athletes during their transition into other parts of their lives.
Data suggest that the number of opportunities for African Americans to make significant incomes in professional sports are
scarce relative to the size of the African American population as a whole.
In the example of how age relations operate in sports, it was explained that the organization of youth sports programs generally reflects
adults’ ideas about what children should be doing and learning.
According to political theorist Antonio Gramsci, the people who sponsor activities that provide popular pleasure and entertainment in society often do so to
deliver messages about what should be important in people’s lives.
At the same time that public money in cities and states has been used to fund the construction of sport venues
fewer people can afford to buy tickets to see local teams.
After looking at data on the nations and athletes that win medals at the Olympic and Paralympic Games, the author concludes that these events
are a celebration of wealth and economic inequality.
Among people born in the U.S., the odds of playing professional sports are
extremely limited for women from all ethnic backgrounds.
As defined in the chapter, social stratification refers to
structured forms of inequality that affect people’s life chances.
In the Sports Business Journal’s rankings of the most influential people in [U.S.] sports business, the people most represented in the top 20 of the 2018 list were
CEOs of media and media marketing companies.
At any point in time in a culture, dominant sport forms
represent the interests of people who have power in that culture.
Pleasure and participation sports generally emphasize
an ethic of good health.
The popularity of power and performance sports is connected with gender relations because these sports
celebrate physical superiority and dominating others.
The Gay Games are an example of
people seeking an alternative to dominant sport forms.
Organization and rationalization have a tendency to undermine the
element of play in sports.
Telecommunications and the electronic media will influence the future because
people use media content to form standards for assessing their experiences.
When people have conservative goals for changing sports, they emphasize
the growth and efficiency of existing sport programs.
Few people have radical goals for changing sports because people who support radical goals usually
focus on changing living conditions more than changing sports.
When joining opposition groups to establish a vantage point for changing sports, a person is most likely to be successful when working to
create more diverse sport spaces at a local level.
