Midterm 1

Question 1

Sociology

Answer 1

Study of social life
Become an individual after interacting with society

Question 2

2 types of power relation

Answer 2

Interpersonal/group power relation
Structural power relation

Question 3

Interpersonal power relation

Answer 3

Asymmetrical power relations between an individual or group
Both side agree for this authority. One side has more than others

Question 4

Structural power relations

Answer 4

Not always 1 on 1 interaction. Embedded in social structures.

Question 5

Sport

Answer 5

Formally organized competitive activity that involves vigorous physical exertion/execution of complex physical skill with rules enforced by a regulatory body.

Question 6

Sociological imagination

Answer 6

Ability to go beyond personal issues and to make connections to social structures, history and broader power relations.
Social structure: changing families, workplaces, sport models
Power relations: social class: Rich has more power and access.

Question 7

3 modernizing factors

Answer 7

1. Improvement of transportation
2. Improvement of communication ( can follow a star)
3. Improvement of technology and facilities

Question 8

Amateur

Answer 8

One who has never competed in competition for public money, or prize or like no working class, no women, no native .
Everyone other than the first class white male.

Question 9

Social stratification

Answer 9

Process of creating layers in society
E.g first class, business class, where to sit on a stadium.
structured forms of economic inequalities that are part of the organization of everyday social life.

Question 10

Power

Answer 10

Ability to define the structure, tradition, practices and meaning in sports

Question 11

Class ideologies:

Answer 11

web of ideas and beliefs that people use to understand economic inequalities ( like social class) identify theemselves in what class they are in and evaluate the jmanner in which economic inequalities are and should be integrated into organization of social worlds.

Question 12

Hegemony

Answer 12

Process which dominant individuals and groups are able to use their power to establish a common sense ( ideological system of means and value)

Question 13

Meritocracy

Answer 13

Reward based on performance
You get what you deserve and you deserve what you get

Question 14

2 conditions in order to have a level playing field

Answer 14

1. equality of opportunity : everyone must have equally available chance
2. Equality of condition: everyone must compete under the same conditions.

Question 15

Sex

Answer 15

Sex you are assigned to at birth. (biological)

Question 16

Gender

Answer 16

Cultural expectation about behaviour, attitude, and appearance that are imposed on people in relation to their physical sex

Question 17

Race

Answer 17

Socially construcvted distinctions between groups of people because of physical/genetic characteristics.
meaning given to physical trait.

Question 18

white stream

Answer 18

diverse country but continue to be defined by the white experience

Question 19

What supremacy

Answer 19

sociopolitical economic system that benefit those who are defined and perceived as white. not individual but more social as a whole system .

Question 20

situational racism

Answer 20

words/action of people who believe in superiority of one group of people over another

Question 21

Systemic racism

Answer 21

structured into political institution/government discriminate to give more benefit to a certain group.

Question 22

CRT (Critical race Theory

Answer 22

activist interested in studying and transforming the relationship between power, race, and racism

Question 23

Core principle of Critical race theory

Answer 23

1. Racism is not an aberration in western socieites but part of very fabric of those societies.
   Not solely through individual acts. (not just about few bad apples)
2. Reject liberals approach to racial justice
3. Does not endorse zero sum understanding of power: Doesn’t mean all or nothing for power. Everyone has power but some people/groups has more power than others.
4. Race intersect with other axes of privilege and marginalization: gender, sexuality, social class…
5. Not enough to focus on and acknowledge the outcomes
6. Help identify racial injustice is reproduced and work to transofrm those relations .

Question 24

Social structure

Answer 24

Patterned relationship that connect different parts of society to one another
puts restraint on our life

Question 25

Agency

Answer 25

ability of individual to act independently to pursue their own free choices to act and shape society.

Question 26

Power

Answer 26

Capacity of a person/group to employ RESOURCES of different type in order to secure outcomes. Level of control that one gorup has over another