Module 1 - Intro to Sport and Peace Flashcards
What is Constructive Tension?
The tension between two groups:
- Uncritical celebrate sport
- Critically and sociologically view sport
Describe a Theoretical Perspective
- A way of looking at (or seeing) a social phenomena
- A ‘lens’ on the world that helps illuminate particular things
- A perspective based on an accumulation of research
What influences the types of questions we ask?
- Theoretical perspectives
What do those who uncritically celebrate sport do?
- Promote the benefits and pleasures of sport
- Some work for organizations that endorse sport
- See sport as an overall positive
What do people who uncritically celebrate sport emphasize?
- Confidence building
- Inclusion
- Health
- Character Development
- Peace Building
What kind of people support sport uncritically?
- Olympic Comity
- People with Positive Experiences
- People who agree that nothing is perfect
- Some see negatives, but see them as individual issues
What are some Macro examples of how sport has been used to promote peace?
- “ping-pong” diplomacy (US and China)
- Olympic Truce “resolve for peaceful competition unmarred by violent conflict”
What are some Micro Examples of how sport has been used to promote peace?
- Physical education post-apartheid south africa
- Tool for social integration
- NGO: “football unites, racism divides” in Sheffield UK. Response to racist attacks on Asian and Somali youth around games
- Anti-racist education programs
- Street football tournaments to promote anti-racism
What sociological perspective falls under the category of an uncritical view of sport?
- Functionalist Perspective
Describe Functionalist Perspective
- Society is an organized system of parts
- People hold similar values and have ties to one another
- Major institutions of society fit together, support values
- When people/institutions are well-integrated, society is ‘healthy’
How is sport viewed from a functionalist perspective?
- Excellent vehicle for teaching values, minimizing deviance, creating community, integration, and social stability
- Maintaining or creating social order, promoting community-building, and relationship building
- Contribution to the physical, psychological, social development of individuals
According to the functionalist perspective, what is sport an excellent vehicle for?
- Teaching Values
- Minimize deviance
- Creating community
- Integration
- Social Stability
According to the Functionalist Perspective, how does sport impact the community?
- Maintain/Create social order
- Promote Community-building
- Relationship Building
According to the Functionalist Perspective, how does sport impact the individual?
Development of:
- Physical
- Psychological
- Social Development
What do Functionalists focus on with sport?
- Building Values: Promoting growth of organized sport
- Organizational loyalty: Funding school sports / communities
- Build international goodwill: Staging the Olympics
