Week 1

Question 1

Be able to determine the terms society, culture, movement cultures

Answer 1

Culture: Complex ways of life that people create and struggle over as they participate in a group of society

Society: A collection of people living in a place and united by a political system and share lifestyle

Movement Cultures: Range of different ways of being physically active: active body. Active bodies can be instruments of physical cult and objects of physical culture

Question 2

Explain how traditional definition of sports falls short and understand why sociologists call sports “contested terrain”

Answer 2

Sports definition falls short and movement cultures is a broader scope. It is defined has human movement: recreation

Game vs Sport

Sociologists see sports as contested terrain: activities for which there no universal agreements about meaning purpose and organization

Question 3

Understand what sport sociologists study and why (3 and three)

Answer 3

What:
1. People
2. Institutions - who’s involved and how run
3. Social process- inequality, protest.. etc

Why:
1.Sports give special meaning to peoples life
2. Sports are tied to important ideas and beliefs
- Gender
- Racial
-Class
3.Sports are connected to major spheres of social life
-Family, Economy, Media
-Politics, Education, Religion

Question 4

Key terms, concepts and events

Answer 4

active bodies
areas of study in sport sociology
contested terrain
social institutions
-social processes
-“the people”
-why study sports?
-bodies as objects and instruments of
-physical culture
-race and gender ideologies
-what relationship