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1
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What is sport?

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Organized, competitive and physical
games.

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What is Social Imagination?

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Ability to see societal patterns that influence members of society.

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What is Agency?

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The capacity to fully achieve what someone sets out to do.

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What is structure?

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Constraints that limits personal choice. Can also shape and influences someones ideas according to societal norms.

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What age in a persons life do they get the most socialization?

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Baby/Toddler.

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What did Guttman suggest?

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Sport has shaped the values of industrial expediency and efficiency. (Rationalization, equality, record-setting etc)

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What are the 3 key areas of sport?

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1) Broader societal changes(politics, society, culture).
2) Behaviours and actions are regulated by rules.
3) Managing, behaving and performing in sport are historically rooted.

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Who constructs sport?

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People in pursuit of their goals.

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9
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Our society’s understanding of sport is mainly _______.

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Uncritical

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What is the basic understanding of sport?

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-Focus on the positive side of sport
-Ignores social stricture when problems arise
-underestimates the social potential and impact of sport.

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Who created the root of functionalism?

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Auguste Compte

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What did Comte believe?

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That you could study society like biology to understand and predict behaviour.

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What was Comte?

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A positivist

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Positivist vs Interprevist.

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Positivist: One reality and truth, quantitative methods

Interpretevist: Realizes the truth and how meaning and reality are socially constructed.

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Define a Functionalist views on sport.

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An institution that functions to maintain social order.

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What did Emile Durkheim suggest?

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Believed in social facts, culture/societal Norms are influenced by peoples actions.

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What did Nobert Elias think?

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the goal should’ve been to destroy the myth method.

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What are the 5 functions of sport?

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1)Contributes to socio-psychological stability
2)Contributes to inculcation of cultural beliefs
3)Contributes to harmonious integration of disparate groups
4) used to ideology purposes and political tool
5) Platform for social mobility

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What is the ‘sport ethic’?

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Belief that athletes should make sacrifice for the game.

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What are like tinted sunglasses, helping people recognize patterns across social context and ability to analysis them?

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Theories

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What was the first major theory of sociology?

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Functionalism

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What are the 4 concepts Hughes & Coakley (1991) suggest about the sport ethic?

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1)Athletes should be dedicated the game above everything else.
2) Athletes should strive for distinction.
3)Athletes should accept risks and play through pain.
4) Athletes should accept no obstacles in pursuit of dreams.

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Define Deviance.

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Any thought or social behaviour that departs from what is considered normal or socially acceptable by society

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What are some critical thoughts on sport ethic and what damage can it do?

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-Long term injury
-Doping/Cheating
-Violence/Sexual offences

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What is negative deviance?

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Under-conformity to social norms.

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What is positive deviance?

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Over-conformity to social norms.(above and beyond.

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Equality vs Equity.

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Equality: Aims to ensure that everyone gets the same things to have a healthy/full life.
Equity: aims to give people what they need to have full/healthy lives.

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Define social inclusion.

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Outcome and process of improving the term on which people take part in society.

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Define social stratification.

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The societal categorization of people into socioeconomic status based on occupation, income,wealth and social status derived of power.

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Define social mobility.

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Class positions are dynamic and boundaries are fluid and people can bounce between classes.

31
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Privilege is _______.

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UNEARNED.

32
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What did Karl Marx believe?

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-Poorest people had no chance of escaping poverty.
-People were exploited through economic relation/work(exploitation).
-Any type of decision making/control of their lives (alienation)
-they lived with little hope and a dulled sense of their own position(false consciousness)

33
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What ways was Marx trying to inspire the poor people?

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-Educate themselves about their situation(Class consciousness)
-Rise up and fight the people who exploited them(revolution)

34
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How is society divided for Marxist?

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Bourgeoisie & Proletariat.

35
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Define Bourgeoisie.

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The owners of production. They own it so they can EXPLOIT it.

36
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Define Proletariat.

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Consumers/Producer.

37
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What are the two levels of power?

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1) The base of society: economic institutions.
2) The superstructure of society: Non-economic institutions.

38
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What is the base of society?

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The Bourgeoisie maintains dominance over Proletariat through exploitation.

39
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How are pro-athletes exploited?

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1)Bought and sold
2) Hired entertainers

40
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How is your social class determined?

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Your access to power and resources to participate and excel in sport.

41
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What are the two types of exclusion?

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Hard: 1st line of attack, Determinants of access and participation.
Soft:2nd line of attack, Social determinants of access that excludes when hard forms fail.

42
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What did Pierre Bourdieu believe?

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He believes that classes are defined by culture and access to them.

43
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What is Habitus?

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Habitus is he tendencies as a group to think, act and like certain things based on socioeconomic groups.

44
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What is Capital?

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Access to certain things

45
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Is sport often a closed or open world of possibility?

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CLOSED WORLD

46
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What is the difference between sex and gender?

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Sex: physical anatomy of reproductive system, SSC

Gender: Social roles based on sex, conforming to masc/fem norms

47
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Define Gender Binary.

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Socially constructed distinction between men and women.

48
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Define the 1st wave of feminism.

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NA/W.E in the late 1800-early 1900s.
Rights they wanted:
Suffrage, Education, employment, emancipation, reproductive rights, freedom from parents/chaperones.

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Define the 2nd wave of feminism.

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1950s: They wanted standard of living to be improves due to inequality.
1960s: Betty Friedan published the feminine mystique, criticizing medias idea of women.
Keeping women at home and limiting possibilities.

50
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Liberal vs Radical feminist.

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Liberal: Working along side men to change the system and remove artificial barriers.

Radical: Working against with system, Seperate spaced for women.

51
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When did we witness a large amount backlash against feminism?

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1980s.

52
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Define Cultural hegemony.

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That one class can dominate society, by manipulating the societal culture it is ruling. Creating a societal norm.

53
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Define Male hegemony.

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Male power shaping our view of the world

54
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What are the 3rd wave of feminism emphasis?

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Breaking down the meanings and values behind messages through ideologies.

55
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What is race?

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Biological similarities among certain groups.

56
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What is Ethnicity?

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Social construct of race.
Cultural activities, language, tradition shared among a group of people.

57
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Define Social Darwinism.

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Darwins theory of evolution to the development of human society/culture.
“Natural selection” “Survival of the fittest”

58
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Define Stereotypes

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An assumed characteristic of a member of a particular group.

59
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What is prejudice?

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Positive or negative values assigned to an assumed characteristic of a member of a certain group.

60
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Define discrimination.

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Positive or negate act made on the basis of a prejudice view.

61
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Martin Kane’s study in 1971.

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Black people have: wider calf bones, greater arm circumference, greater muscle to tendon ratio.

He only studied a small group of elite black athletes.

Blacks are more relaxed under pressure. Possibly mistook the for the African -American culture of men being ‘cool’.

62
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Define Racial Stacking.

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Athletes being forced to do certain things because of racially-derives assumptions about their abilities connected to their race.

63
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What was the Coakley reading in 2015a about?

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The great sport myth.
Sport is perfect and the goodness of sport is passed along to those who play. Sport leads to individual and community development.
Don’t need to study sport critically as it is already as it should be.

64
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What as the Hughes and Coakley reading in 1991 about?

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Over conformity and the sport ethic.
Making sacrifices for the game, attempting risks, refusing limits and playing through injury.

65
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What was the Coakley reading in 2015b
about?

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The impact sport has on students.
Positives: Involves students, builds confidence, better physical shape,better grades.
Negatives: Distracts students, Conformity, injuries, pressure on athletes.

66
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What was the Sack part 2 reading in 2008 about?

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The rules changed within the NCAA in the 60-80s.
Those rules included:
-Athletic scholarships could be taken away
-Freshman ineligibitly
-Title 9,1972

67
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What was the Smith reading in 2009 about part 1?

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Drug use in sport. Causing health problems in athletes= form of cheating, harmful to the image of sport.

68
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What was the Smith reading in 2009 about?

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NCAA is a amateur recreational outlet for college students= no compensation $. Students getting improper benefits. player getting under the table payments.

69
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What was the Lake reading in 2013 about?

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Even though he could afford a membership at the tennis club he was excluded and treated poorly.

70
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What was the Harris reading in 2005 about?

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Gender roles in sport. Women seen as masculine because they played soccer. “All female soccer player are lesbian essentially”. People would make themselves seem over the top straight so people wouldn’t assume.

71
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What was the Kerr reading in 2010 about?

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Racial superiority in sport, having to test their race to see if they were superior mainly black athletes.

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