WEEKS 22-24: REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE, SPORTS AND AGING AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Question 1

Pregnancy and Surveillance

Answer 1

Some literature has critiqued medical practice around reproduction for the ways women bodies become routinely monitored

Community policing or judgement
Eg judging a pregnant women for drinking coffee

Question 2

Deciding Whether or not to have children

Answer 2

cultural norms we have around pregnancy and birth

eg.
Giving up a career to be a mother
Age
Getting married before birth

Question 3

Access to Contraception and Abortion

Answer 3

Health literacy

Financial situations

Gatekeeping in healthcare
Birth control and IUDs require a doctor’s prescription

Question 4

Use - Contraception and abortion

Answer 4

Why do people choose not to use contraception
Religious or cultural reasons
Distrust in Westernized medicine
Side effects

Question 5

Myths about Abortion, stigma and misinformation (USE)

Answer 5

People will use abortion as a form of birth control as it is readily available

Abortion causes breast cancer and infertility

People can get abortions whenever they want

Question 6

Effectivness of abortion and contraception

Answer 6

How effective are these methods
Conceptions of effectiveness

Question 7

Public opinion on abortion and contraception

Answer 7

How does this shape policy how does policy shape public opinion

Question 8

Infertility and stigma

Answer 8

Infertile women suffer because they have internalized gender norms that are expressed in dominant gender roles
Defective
Can constitute feelings of moral failing

Question 9

Egg agencies

Answer 9

Altruistic rhetoric
Women’s reproductive bodies are coded through cultural norms about motherhood
An egg donation is a gift

Question 10

Sperm Banks

Answer 10

Financial rhetoric
Men’s bodies are coded through cultural norms associated with productivity, labour and economic output
Sperm donation is a job

Question 11

Goal of sociology and sports

Answer 11

understanding the game but also the games outside the games

How does the institution of sport relate to other institutions and impact people’s interactions, daily lives and life chances

Question 12

Functionalism on sports

Answer 12

sports as a form of social solidarity

How do sports bring people together
How does organic solidarity take place within various sports

Question 13

Conflict theory on sports

Answer 13

the dynamics of capitalist economic systems shape sports

Conditions of Athletic Production
Owner player conflicts eg. NCAA
Nature and effects of sports consumption

Question 14

Symbolic interactionism

Answer 14

meaning-making through interactions in sports (on and off the field of play)

Question 15

Life course perspective on aging

Answer 15

We cannot understand what old age means unless we understand it as part of the entire course of human life

We can look at old age as one phase of the entire life course, and the result of influences that came from earlier periods and life transitions

Question 16

Political economy on the environment

Answer 16

investigates the effects of capitalism and modernity on socio-ecological wellbeing

Often Marxist struggles over means of production tend to favour capitalist classes and also produce greater ecological damage and mass social suffering for those without capital

Question 17

World Systems theory on the environment

Answer 17

explains how the historical economic development of core countries occurred as a result of ecological degradation, social upheavals and economic underdevelopment of nations within the global periphery

Core countries dump toxic waste and explore hazardous production facilities in periphery nations

They also extract energy and other forms of ecological wealth from poor countries and pay less than market value for them

Question 18

Environmental justice

Answer 18

the recognition that the material impact of social inequality is reflected in the highly uneven distribution of environmental harm and privileges in societies across the globe

Highlights the need to study issues of environmental racism and associated inequalities