Week 12 Flashcards
End Of 2010
Homophobia appeared to be decreasing
Michael sam
- openly gay player drafted into nfl
- career was under constant scrutiny
- never made it onto roster
One openly player in NFL
Ryan Russell
Brock McGillis
- gay hockey player
- hockey=homophobic
Politics
- Any activity relating to influencing, making and implementing decisions that affect collections of groups of people from small groups to societies
- politics has more to do with who has power who or what group has authority you enact their preferred ideologies and public funding, legislation and processes of accountability all play a role in policy processes
Civil society
- groups and organizations working in the interest of citizens but not officially as part of government or for profit sector
Are sport organizations a civil society
Sports organizations are an example not officially part of government but receive public government funding
- MSO; national multisport service organizations
- NSO; national sport organizations
Soft power
- forms of power that seek to influence outcomes through non coercive means politics of persuasion
Most nations have used
Sport events regularly to promote their own military economic , political and cultural goals
Cold War
- played out via proxy wars in remote parts of the world ( instead of direct armed conflict)
- via social and cultural confrontations (like sport) that were meant to demonstrate the superiority of their way of life and economic system through sport
- USSr and USA both invested heavily in high performance sport
Protests and boycotts during Cold War
- each refused to participate in events hosted by the other as a form of protest against what each called objectionable action
- boycott 1980 Moscow olympics
US defeated USSR;miracle on ice
1980 winter games
Famous 1972 summit series
8 game series, completion between our way of life and a communist way of life
International sport completions can provide them an uncommon platform true or false
True
Homoerasure
Extremely homophobic culture
- fails to recognize that gay people exist