Lecture 7, Sociocultural Factors

Question 1

What are the SOCIO-CULTURAL FACTORS?

Answer 1

Combination of social and cultural factors as they relate to the different groups of people in society and their beliefs, habits,
and traditions

Question 2

Social aspect of society..

Answer 2

• A collection of people living in a defined geographical territory
• United by a political system and a shared sense of self-identification that distinguishes them from other collections of people
• Each society has a different culture and different forms of social, political and economic organization

Question 3

CULTURAL ASPECT

Answer 3

Consists of the ways of life people create as they participate in a group or society

Question 4

SOCIO-CULTURAL SYSTEM

Answer 4

• Refers to a self-organized movement towards a predefined order
• Membership in socio-cultural systems could include family, groups, organizations, and nations

Question 5

SOCIO-CULTURAL IDENTITY

Answer 5

• Individuals tend to be classified on the basis and interpretation of these characterizations
• Depending on the ways in which they are perceived, some people have more privilege than others
• It is believed that socially constructed categories are positioned in difference or opposition
• Held to different and relatively fixed normative expectations and roles in society

Question 6

What is the SOCIO-CULTURAL APPROACH?

Answer 6

A socio-cultural approach helps us understand how
behaviour can be influenced by the ways in which one engages with themselves, their environment, and others

Question 7

SOCIAL ECOLOGICAL MODEL

Answer 7

• Recognizes the relationships between individuals and their physical environments
• Assumes that behaviour results from influences at multiple levels
• Environmental factors influence behaviour directly and indirectly through individuals’
  perceptions
• PA interventions are most likely to be effective when they target multiple levels

Question 8

What does INTERSECTIONALITY mean?

Answer 8

Provides a lens to understand individuals’ multiple social identities and how these identities interact to shape experiences in specific contexts

Question 9

What is STIGMA?

Answer 9

Shame or inferior status that people consciously or unconsciously ascribe to others they perceive as “different”

Question 10

Ableism

Answer 10

Expecting people with disabilities to always adjust to a world that doesn’t take their needs into account “Normal”

Question 11

Intersectional thinking

Answer 11

Requires a willingness to listen to unfamiliar insights to understand issues that may affect certain social groups or individuals - we must hear their voices, experiences, practices, and histories no matter how uncomfortable

Question 12

When considering how socio-cultural factors may inhibit or promote Adapted PA
participation it is important to …

Answer 12

• consult the intersectionality framework
• Individuals with disabilities are often faced with additional challenges

Question 13

Barriers (4)

Answer 13

1. Intrapersonal – Physical limitations, lack of time
2. Information – Lack of health care provider guidance
3. Resource – Financial constraints, lack of
   neighbourhood facilities and resources
4. Socio-cultural – Influence of African American culture

Question 14

Facilitators

Answer 14

1. Group Exercise
2. Affordable and accessible exercise facilities

Question 15

3 themes were constructed from an intersectionality
perspective

Answer 15

1. “Girls don’t like gym anyways”: Limited participation from
   the female perspective
2. “She can’t do what other kids can do”: Biased
   expectations of physical educators
3. “It was really awkward”: Feelings about negative
   peer interactions