Sport TB&S - Threshold Concepts Flashcards
Ableism?
The beliefs & practices arising from a perspective which views able-bodied people as the norm and disabled people as deficient, often leading to various forms of discrimination/disadvantage.
Amateurism?
An ideology stressing that the purity of sports is being undermined by paid athletes.
Athletic identity?
The perception from yourself and others that you are an athlete, shaping behaviour in specific ways.
Body as a project?
Having aims for one’s body image or ability, usually as a response to perceived threats from the external world and/or as part of a process of identity construction.
Commodification?
The process of turning something into a valuable object that can be sold for profit, often distorting its original purpose.
Consumption/consumerism?
The behaviour associated with choosing and purchasing things, which are often attached to our identities.
Gender?
A socially constructed, ideological system regarding what men’s and women’s lives should be like, which often exaggerates or is otherwise related to natural sex differneces.
Healthism?
An ideological belief that an individual’s health is entirely a matter of their own individual agency.
Ideology?
Guiding principles that shape the way people think, often linked to how society/sport ‘should’ be.
Inclusive practice?
Incorporating methods that meets the needs of diverse population groups into one’s professional practise.
Internalisation?
Accepting an ideological viewpoint to the point where we end up making the idea real through the way we live our lives.
Positive deviance/overconformity? Example?
By ‘over-conforming’ to the normal ideals we are held to, we can be drawn into deviant behaviour e.g. overtraining.
Racial common sense?
The worldview which limits our perception of people to the assumed characteristics of their race.
Racial framing?
Perceiving the actions or qualities of people differently based on race.
Sexism?
Prejudice, discrimination or stereotyping on the basis of an individual’s sex.
Social construction?
The observation that specific cultural norms have been developed by people rather than through nature, and can change as society develops one way or another.
Socialisation?
The processes by which individuals are taught to be part of social groups and can lead to the construction of identities/beliefs.
Social stratification?
The hierarchies that exist which are often socially constructed and form the basis of many types of inequality.
Sociological imagination?
The ability to understand the links between the public and the personal, which helps us cope in complex, modern societies.
The sport ethic?
A set of ideological beliefs regarding what it means to be a ‘real’ athlete.
Structure and agency?
The debate concerning how much a person’s life is shaped by their own free will and decision making (agency) vs the effect of society placing limits on their ability to freely think (structure).
