Contemporary Issues in Sport Review
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Course Introduction
This course explores the dynamic landscape of contemporary issues affecting the world of sport, including ethics, diversity, globalization, governance, media influence, and technological advancements. Students will critically analyze how current events, societal trends, and policy developments shape athletic participation, management, and spectatorship at amateur, collegiate, and professional levels. Through case studies and discussion, the course encourages students to evaluate the challenges and opportunities facing sport organizations, athletes, and stakeholders in an ever-evolving global context.
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Sports in Society Issues and Controversies 11th Edition by Jay Coakley
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Chapter 1: The Sociology of Sport: What Is It and Why Study
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Q1) According to the author, one of the problems with a single definition of sport is that it might lead some sociologists to
A)ignore people who lack the resources to formally organize their games.
B)ask too many critical questions and destroy the enjoyment of sports.
C)focus too much attention on the games of people in low income groups.
D)ignore the political importance of sports in society.
Answer: A
Q2) Official definitions of sports in the United States emphasize
A)formally organized, competitive activities.
B)health-related activities that reduce obesity rates.
C)activities in which there are no winners or losers.
D)age-integrated activities that can be played anywhere.
Answer: A
Q3) Which of the following is a FALSE statement about ideologies?
A)Ideologies consist of ideas that people use to give meaning to the world.
B)Ideologies are stable and unchanging cultural perspectives.
C)Ideologies refer to the principles that underlie people's feelings and actions.
D)Ideologies emerge as people struggle over how to make sense of the world.
Answer: B
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Chapter 2: Producing Knowledge About Sports in Society:
How Is Knowledge Produced in the Sociology of Sport
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Q1) When Messner used a critical approach in his research on gender and sports, he was interested in
A)how sports can be used to challenge exploitive practices in society.
B)how he could help children adjust to the sex segregation of their teams.
C)providing sport administrators with the tools to be more efficient.
D)the ways that youth sports could generate revenues for worthy causes.
Answer: A
Q2) Sociological theories are different from our personal theories in that they
A)don't allow us to make predictions.
B)are based on the insights of people who have special analytical abilities.
C)combine the observations of men and women and old and young.
D)are developed by using systematic research and logic.
Answer: D
Q3) In the chapter it is noted that personal theories, as opposed to sociological theories,
A)have little practical value.
B)reproduce social worlds in their current forms.
C)are based on the immediate experiences of individuals.
D)enable people to anticipate general social events.
Answer: C
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Chapter 3: Sports and Socialization: Who Plays and What Happens to Them
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Q1) A review of socialization research led the author to conclude that sport participation is most likely to have positive socialization consequences when it
A)it limits a person's relationships to coaches and teammates.
B)it keeps people off the streets and in the locker room.
C)provides opportunities to expand experiences outside of sports.
D)teaches people how to compete against others.
Answer: C
Q2) The definition of socialization used by the author is based on A)a social interaction model.
B)a role theory model.
C)a personal internalization model.
D)a structural model.
Answer: A
Q3) The research done by Eric Anderson prior to 2001 generally indicated that
A)anti-gay locker room talk was never taken serious by gay or lesbian athletes.
B)team sports were more gay-friendly than individual sports.
C)gay men and lesbians seldom took sports seriously in their lives.
D)combining a gay identity with a sport identity often was challenging.
Answer: D
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Chapter 4: Sports for Children: Are Organized Programs
Worth the Effort
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Q1) The author notes that sport development experts worldwide agree that
A)coaching education is not essential in youth sports.
B)children are ready at 5-years old to learn how to play team positions.
C)successful coaches always treat child athletes as potential stars.
D)children under 8-years old should not play highly organized sports.
Q2) Research that compares children's experiences in organized and informal sports is scare because of three factors.Which of the following is NOT one of those factors?
A)The standards used by many research ethics committees at universities.
B)Parents who object to anyone studying their children.
C)The decline of informal games played by children.
D)A lack of research skills among scholars who want to study children.
Q3) A negative consequences of the expectation that parents are responsible for the supervision of their children 24-hours a day, 7-days a week is that
A)too many new public parks have been built by communities.
B)adult supervision causes children to become rebellious.
C)parents without resources may be defined as irresponsible.
D)parents spend too much time in cars with their children.
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Chapter 5: Deviance in Sports: Is It Out of Control
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Q1) According to the career model discussed in the chapter, when long time professional athletes retire from full time, year round training and competition and re-enter the "ordinary world," they
A)quickly embrace previously held identities.
B)find it difficult to become normal in that world.
C)enjoy the relative peacefulness of everyday life.
D)usually return to amateur competition in their sport.
Q2) Research that high rates of alcohol use and binge drinking
A)exist for athletes across all age levels and for males and females.
B)have caused coaches to test athletes before practices.
C)exist only are common among athletes only during the off-season.
D)linked with a culture in which partying and drinking are expected.
Q3) Research on deviance in sports is limited in that it focuses primarily on
A)people with power in spot organizations.
B)deviant overconformity among athletes and coches.
C)the underconformity of athletes.
D)the institutional corruption of professional sports.
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Chapter 6: Violence in Sports: How Does It Affect Our Lives
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Q1) The person who plays the role of "enforcer" on a contact sport team is expected to
A)assist referees in controlling the game.
B)intimidate and use violence against opponents.
C)provide legal advice to teammates.
D)aggravate the coach of the opposing team.
Q2) Studies show that in comparison with sports today, the tournaments and sport activities in medieval and early modern Europe were
A)less likely to involve serious injuries.
B)more likely to use technology.
C)more rule-governed.
D)more violent.
Q3) The author notes that the legal liability related to brain injuries is most likely to affect the future of
A)global soccer leagues where players make low salaries.
B)heavy contact sports played by athletes under the legal age of consent.
C)sports played by people from low income families.
D)women's heavy contact and collision sports.
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Chapter 7: Gender and Sports: Is Equity Possible
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Q1) Most female athletes today manage gender issues by A)using a "reformed apologetic" to appear both tough and feminine.
B)wearing the same clothing that male athletes wear.
C)sharing sports equipment with men.
D)erasing the boundaries between masculinity and femininity.
Q2) The gender ideology used in many cultures assumes a two-category model for classifying sex and gender.When such a model is used, people
A)classify all homosexuals as "like women."
B)ignore real physiological variations among males and among females.
C)conclude that men and women are physical equals.
D)ignore physical differences between men and women.
Q3) To avoid appease men and discourage men from seeing them as invaders of male spaces in sports, female athletes during the 20<sup>th</sup> century
A)rejected common stereotypes of femininity so they would be seen as male-like.
B)raised their own money and built their own facilities to play sports.
C)usually had their fathers coach them in team sports.
D)chose to call themselves "ladies" when they played sports.
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Chapter 8: Race and Ethnicity:
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Q1) Tiger Woods, the popular and successful professional golfer, identifies himself as A)African American.
B)North American.
C)Cablinasian.
D)Black-Asian.
Q2) When Native Americans and other ethnic minorities have strong ethnic identities, one of the strategies they use when they play mainstream sports is to A)return to their native homelands at least six times a year.
B)find teammates to whom they can teach their heritage.
C)demand that teammates take ethnic history courses.
D)redefine sport participation to fit their cultural beliefs.
Q3) When people use continuous traits as a basis for identifying races, A)it is clear that there are three major races.
B)there is no limit on the number of races that can be identified.
C)they assume that there are racial differences in athletic potential.
D)they base their racial classifications on scientific evidence.
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Chapter 9: Social Class: Do Money and Power Matter in Sports
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Q1) As of 2013, for every contract dollar made by NBA players during their season, players in the WNBA made
A)30-cents.
B)10-cents.
C)1-cent.
D)5-cents.
Q2) There have not been significant increases in the proportions of blacks working at top management levels in sports because
A)talented blacks choose non-sport jobs that pay more than sport jobs.
B)hiring processes for top jobs favor people similar to team owners.
C)white male owners are threatened by qualified blacks.
D)team owners fear a drop in ticket sales if blacks are hired for top jobs.
Q3) Data on global income and living conditions show that
A)nearly half the people in the world lack the resources to play organized sports.
B)in ten years most people in developing nations will escape poverty.
C)most elite athletes today are from the poorest nations in the world.
D)the poorest children in the world have the most leisure time to play sports.
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Chapter 10: Age and Ability: Barriers to Participation and Inclusion
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Q1) The great sport myth carries over to disability sport organizations in that the people who manage these organizations
A)spend too much time creating enjoyable events and forgetting about excellence.
B)often overlook what must be done if sports are to have the effects they claim.
C)do too many evaluation studies and not enough medical education.
D)assume that events will have negative legacies unless they obtain television coverage.
Q2) Studies of middle-age and older people who participate in Masters sports indicate that these people use sports to
A)simultaneously resist and accept the ageing process.
B)set records they could not set during their younger years.
C)stay in shape so they can do their jobs more effectively.
D)obtain discounts on their health insurance policies.fill their time
Q3) Ableism is a perspective that leads people to overlook that
A)perfection is achieved only through hard work.
B)anyone can do whatever they want to do if they work hard.
C)achieving life goals often requires luck as well as intelligence.
D)variations in ability are a normal part of human existence.
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Chapter 11: Sports and the Economy: What Are the
Characteristics of Commercial Sports
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Q1) The globalization of commercial sports is due in part to the fact that A)sport organizations are interested in expanding their markets.
B)athletes as a group like to travel to new places.
C)airlines are major corporate sponsors of pro sports worldwide.
D)immigration regulations have been loosened up in many countries today.
Q2) Spectator interest in sports is created in connection with four cultural conditions.Which of the following is NOT one of the conditions discussed in the chapter?
A)A widespread ideology that connects success and hard work.
B)A system of youth sports in which children learn to value sport skills.
C)A large collection of low-income workers with free time on their hands.
D)A quest for excitement in social worlds characterized by order and control.
Q3) The legal status of most athletes in professional team sports in North America was for many years governed by the reserve system.The reserve system was designed to
A)give players total control over their own careers.
B)increase the salaries of the best athletes on a predetermined schedule.
C)give team owners nearly total control of players and their careers.
D)give wealthy team owners an advantage over other team owners.
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Chapter 12: Sports and the Media: Could They Survive
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Q1) Fantasy sport leagued give media sport consumers an opportunity to put themselves in the position of
A)an owner of a sport team.
B)a top media executive.
C)a professional athlete.
D)a professional sports agent.
Q2) In the box, Playing versus Posing?, it is noted that women athletes
A)have no problems in allowing photographers to sexualize their bodies.
B)refuse to pose nude because they know it will devalue women's sports.
C)females athletes face gendered choices when comes to media photographs.
D)can make more money as models than they make playing their sport..
Q3) Most media content is tied to power relations in the sense that they
A)cause people to question major political decisions in society.
B)emphasize images and messages consistent with dominant ideologies.
C)are direct reflections of the interests of politically powerful people.
D)are controlled and censored by the most powerful people in the society.
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Chapter 13: Sports and Politics: How Do Governments and Global
Political Processes Influence Sports
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Q1) In the box, Olympism and the Olympic Games, it is noted that the current method of selling media broadcasting rights to the Olympic Games
A)subverts Olympic ideals.
B)promotes Olympism.
C)benefits small nations.
D)decreases coverage seen by Americans.
Q2) In the box, Olympism and the Olympic Games, the author endorses the elimination of national medal counts because such counts tend to
A)encourage large nations to boycott the Olympics.
B)provide corporations with marketing advantages.
C)intensify nationalism and political differences between countries.
D)focus too much on the achievements of individual athletes.
Q3) In the box, Olympism and the Olympic Games, the author suggests that the Olympic motto, "Citius, Altius, Fortius," should be replaced by new motto that emphasizes
A)a spirit of patriotism and nationalism.
B)health, unity, and peace.
C)the problems associated with corporate capitalism.
D)the interests of the best athletes in the world.
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Chapter 14: Sports in High School and College: Do
Competitive Sports Contribute to Education
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Q1) Relying on participation fees to support high school sports
A)helps coaches deal more effectively with parents.
B)is offensive to local businesses who have sponsored teams in the past.
C)discourages participation among students from low-income families.
D)encourages booster clubs to intervene in team dynamics.
Q2) Research suggests that the spirit generated by high profile college sports events is associated with
A)an increase in the hours devoted to study and general academic work.
B)more time spent away from campus.
C)events that undermine the time spent on academic work.
D)forms of networking that enable students to obtain part time jobs.
Q3) The most logical explanation for academic differences between athletes and "non-athletes" in high school is that
A)school sports attract students with certain characteristics.
B)participation in school sports builds academic skills.
C)it takes intelligence to play sports.
D)sports help students focus on their studies.
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Chapter 15: Sports and Religions: Is It a Promising
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Q1) Some people believe that religion and sport each have essential and unchanging qualities that are different.They usually say that the rituals and beliefs of religion are
A)based on natural laws in the universe.
B)based on general superstitions in a culture.
C)preserved in written forms.
D)connected with the sacred and supernatural.
Q2) When people define sport as a form of religion they identify similarities between sport and religion.For example, they note that both
A)are based on the belief that the human body is sacred.
B)have rituals that people use to deal with ultimate questions in life.
C)focus on the connection between the natural and the supernatural.
D)invoke intense excitement and emotional commitment.
Q3) Those most likely to use the Olympics as sites for spreading religious beliefs are
A)American Buddhists.
B)fundamentalist Christians.
C)progressive Catholics.
D)socially active Jews.
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