Sociological Imagination

Question 1

What is sociological imagination?

Answer 1

The ability to see the societal patterns that influence groups, and organizations Challenging, questioning, and probing for a deeper meaningful level of understanding.

Question 2

what is agency?

Answer 2

the capacity to achieve fully what an individual gets out and chooses to achieve

Question 3

What is structure?

Answer 3

the constraints that can limit personal choice and also shape/influence an individual’s ideas, visions, values, etc. according to societal norms

Question 4

at what point in a person’s life might most of their socialization occur?

Answer 4

mostly in childhood, but throughout their whole life ex: choosing gender colour before born

Question 5

when might socialization occur as adult?

Answer 5

when you move to a new country/city, starting a new workplace, school, or club

Question 6

what are the three key areas of sport?

Answer 6

1) behaviours/actions are regulated by norms and values (formal/informal rules)
2) Broader societal changes have influenced its development (politics, economics, culture)
3) ways of managing, behaving and performing in sport are historically rooted.

Question 7

What are some key factors around the idea that sport behaviours and actions are regulated by norms and values

(Formal/informal rules)

Answer 7

• the clothing that you wear to play
• your means of transport to the location
• who you choose to play with
• the way you play
• the cultural expressions you recognize that are associated

Question 8

what are some factors around the idea that sport is a key area where broader societal changes have influenced its development?

(politics, economic, society, culture)

Answer 8

• Guttmann (1978) suggested modern sport has come to be shaped in accordance witht the values of industrial expendiency and efficiency:
• Specialization
• Rationalization (rules)
• Bureaucracy (governance)
• Qualifications/ record-setting
• Equality

Question 9

why is the history of “sport” bound up with humanity?

Answer 9

• sport games and pastimes have evolved often in unplanned ways
• Leisure has also evolved, but has retained key joyous, creative pursuit of excellence

Question 10

What aspects of sport are influenced by history?

Answer 10

• sporting cultures, traditions, celebration
• sport as “identity”
• sports and social exclusion
• gendered and racialized sport
• sport and violence
• sport as means of social

Question 11

Early on, employers played a key role, with sport adjunct to work promoting what?

Answer 11

• masculinity
• a productive work ethic
• ethics and morals

Question 12

most recently, what have come to play a key role with sport and how?

Answer 12

• corporations
• maximize profits, boost economics, promote political ideologies, exploit athletes, concel cheating and criminal activity among athletes, and encourage violence