Midterm 1 Flashcards
Where does our understanding of sport come from?
Institutions such as media, family, school, and politics.
How does language use signs and symbols to convey meaning?
To create a sense of common understanding, also being able to construct meaning and through a political framework.
What do signs in language signify?
A dominant and alternative meaning.
How is sport structured and limited?
Rules and codes of conduct, spatial constraints, leading to limitations within sport.
What is the goal in sport?
To demonstrate a winner and a loser.
What is the definition of “ludic”?
Physical and recreational activities that can help improve motor skills and promote creativity.
What factors host society within sports?
Culturally situated value systems and power relations within the relevant sports.
What ideas are practiced in sport?
Politics, gender, race, sexuality, commercialism, and nationalism.
What does sport challenge in society?
Dominant ideologies.
Difference between strike and walkout?
A strike is led by workers, while a walkout is led by leaders and employers.
What is an ideology?
A worldview that conveys statements that are highly subjective but make claims to objectivity.
What enterprises make up sport?
Political and economic enterprises.
What is demonstrated in sport ideology?
A site of ideology and myth in race, gender, sexuality, ability and class.
How has sport embedded within globalization and neoliberalism?
Through labor and media control.
What is a welfare state and what does it do?
It is a social service and participation and it is a hindrance to sport.
What is the role of sports in the realm of new social movements?
To lead sport to peace and development through sustainability and social justice.
