Quiz 1

Question 1

What is a historical sensitivity ?

Answer 1

A historical sensibility is less a method than a practice, a mental awareness, discernment, responsiveness to the past and how it unfolded into our present world.

Question 2

What is the difference between amateur and professional ?

Answer 2

Amateur: play for honour and pleasure and not paid

Professional: are paid to play there sport

Question 3

Is it that sport can be an agent of change? Plus one example

Answer 3

Yes! Sport has been a tool for assimilation

Question 4

What is the meaning of hegemony?

Answer 4

The process used by a dominant individual or group in a democratic society, in which they establish an ideological system of meaning based on a « common sense » to exert their moral and leadership.

Question 5

What politic regime hegemony is associated to?

Answer 5

Capitalism

Question 6

What is the meaning of meritocracy?

Answer 6

A meritocracy is hierarchical ranking in which individuals are ranked based on their performance the more they perform the more they get rewarded, so it is based on merits.

Question 7

What is considered as a true meritocracy?

Answer 7

Is when equality of opportunity and condition is achieved

Question 8

What is the meaning of equality of opportunity?

Answer 8

It is when all individuals have the same prospect or opportunity to take part in particular activities regardless of race, gender or religion

Question 9

What is the meaning of equality of conditions?

Answer 9

It is when all individuals are under the same circumstances in taking part of a particular activity no individual had advantage over others.

Question 10

What is the difference between equality of opportunity and equality of conditions?

Answer 10

Equality of conditions is based on where do you stand on the society based on your abilities, but you should an equal share vs equality of opportunity is when no one would be held back because of race,gender or religion

Question 11

Is sport really a meritocracy?

Answer 11

No

Question 12

What is economic capital?

Answer 12

Use of money and property

Question 13

What is social capital?

Answer 13

It’s about who you know?

Question 14

What is cultural capital?

Answer 14

It’s about what you know

Question 15

What is symbolic capital?

Answer 15

Ressources to an individual based on honour prestige and recognition

Question 16

What is a social stratification?

Answer 16

It’s a system of social standing where a social categorization occurs in which it’s people or separate in different groups based on wealth, income, race, education, ethnicity, gender, social status.

Question 17

What is the difference between race and ethnicity?

Answer 17

Race is a socially constructed distinction between groups based on different characteristics such as skin colour and ethnicity is a cultural characteristic shared by a social group like a language, beliefs