Introduction to Sports Studies
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Course Introduction
Introduction to Sports Studies offers students a comprehensive overview of the multifaceted world of sports, examining its social, cultural, historical, and economic significance. Through interdisciplinary perspectives, the course explores the role of sports in society, issues related to ethics and governance, and the impact of sports on identity, community, and global events. Students will investigate topics such as sports management, media, health, and the evolving nature of athletic participation while developing critical thinking and research skills applicable to a variety of academic and professional pathways within the field of sports studies.
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Sports in Society Issues and Controversies12th 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) The author explains that a sociological approach to studying sports
A)will grow if it produces knowledge that is useful to many people.
B)is useless when it is critical and idealistic.
C)produces knowledge that enables athletes to train more effectively.
D)is useful because it proves that sport has essential and unchanging qualities.
Answer: A
Q2) Racial ideology refers to
A)ideas and beliefs that are based on research about race.
B)idealized definitions of how blacks and whites should treat each other.
C)the biological factors that make people different from each other.
D)ideas and beliefs that people use to give meaning to skin color.
Answer: D
Q3) Widespread acceptance of the great sport myth leads people to
A)play sports even when they don't find them enjoyable.
B)see little need to study sports from a critical perspective.
C)seek ways to change and improve sports.
D)define sports as wars without weapons.
Answer: B
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Chapter 2: Producing Knowledge About Sports in Society:
What Is the Role of Research and Theory
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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) The author points out that knowledge produced by research in the sociology of sport can be used to
A)improve our sport performances.
B)inform the decisions we make about sports and sport participation.
C)understand more fully the strategies used by coaches.
D)create training programs that will prevent serious injuries.
Answer: B
Q3) Social theories are useful and practical because they
A)justify our personal biases and enable us to put those biases into action.
B)prevent us from making decisions that could get us into trouble.
C)enable us to make sense out of life and learn from our experiences.
D)often impress other people who lack formal education and training.
Answer: C
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Chapter 3: Sports and Socialization: Who Plays and What Happens to Them
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Q1) According to the definition used in Chapter 3,socialization refers to a process that A)molds people into productive citizens.
B)permanently alters a person's genetic predispositions.
C)involves social development and learning about social worlds.
D)occurs only during a person's formative years in childhood.
Answer: C
Q2) Recent studies of socialization are based on social interaction models rather than personal internalization models.Social interaction models emphasize that human beings are
A)products of society.
B)victims of economic forces in society.
C)active decision makers who give meaning to their experiences.
D)social creatures who seek approval from others in whatever they do.
Answer: C
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Chapter 4: Sports for Children: Are Organized Programs
Worth the Effort
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Q1) Parental involvement in and concern about youth sports have increased because A)parents today are imitating their own parents' and grandparents' actions.
B)most parents are reliving their childhoods through their children.
C)sport programs demand that parents come to practices and games.
D)parental moral worth is now associated with the success of children.
Q2) A sign that some children reject structured,adult-controlled sport programs is the A)increased interest in alternative sports.
B)growth and popularity of after school programs.
C)recent increase in violent crime among young people.
D)high turnover among coaches in those programs.
Q3) The potential for child abuse is highest in elite,specialized sport training programs when
A)the income of adults depends on the performances of children.
B)coaches use training methods used by college coaches.
C)children are encouraged to train with peers they don't know.
D)child athletes rebel against coaches and take over their own training.
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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) The author points out that the seemingly endless parade of cheating scandals in the big-time NCAA sport programs and other sport governing bodies is four factors.Which of the following is NOT one of those factors?
A)A lack of transparency and accountability in sport organizations.
B)Sport governing bodies are unprepared to investigate themselves.
C)Self-policing strategies create inherent conflicts of interest in sports.
D)Sport leaders are so diverse that they cannot agree on social control strategies.
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Chapter 6: Violence in Sports: 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) Research on high school students has found that
A)males in heavy contact sports are involved in fewer fights than other athletes.
B)tennis players are involved in fewer fights than peers who don't play sports.
C)women soccer players has higher rates of fighting than any male athletes.
D)male students with football players as friends fought less than other students.
Q3) A study by Nancy Theberge found that elite women ice hockey players have a difficult time controlling all forms of brutal body contact in their sport because
A)their coaches demand that they use violence as a game strategy.
B)they love the physicality of ice hockey.
C)they often develop a strong hatred for their opponents.
D)their teammates expect them to use forms of quasi-criminal violence.
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Chapter 7: Gender and Sports: Is Equity Possible
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Q1) In the discussion of gender issues in informal and alternative sports it is noted that
A)ESPN's X Games have been praised for their commitment to gender equity.
B)gender discrimination has gradually disappeared in these activities.
C)boys and men generally control who plays in these settings.
D)Title IX prohibits gender discrimination in these sports.
Q2) Gay men and lesbians in sports may be ignored,marginalized,or harassed because
A)they have strange ideas about how sports should be played.
B)they force their teammates to discuss issues of sexuality.
C)they do not get along with heterosexual coaches.
D)they challenge assumptions that underlie dominant ideas about gender.
Q3) A woman coach is hired in an all-male athletic department.The search committee concluded that she was qualified because she coached like a man.This shows that the athletic department is
A)male-dominated.
B)male-identified.
C)male-oriented.
D)male-centered.
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Chapter 8: Race and Ethnicity:
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Q1) Black male athletes have become valuable entertainment commodities in sports emphasizing power and domination partly because
A)many whites are fascinated by the movements of black male bodies.
B)black men have been segregated in schools that emphasize sports.
C)whites have simply refused to compete with blacks in most power sports.
D)black men have special techniques for dealing with anxiety in sports.
Q2) In the box,Identity Theft? Using Native American Names and Images in Sports,it is noted that team
A)names like Savages inspire pride among most Native Americans.
B)names like Chiefs inspire white students to respect Native Americans.
C)mascots like Chief Wahoo is a form of bigotry.
D)mascots like Seminole,the Florida State horse,reaffirm Native American history.
Q3) Research on Major League Baseball indicates that Latino players
A)have poor performance records in the major leagues.
B)have declined in numbers in recent years.
C)demand higher signing bonuses than other players.
D)make up about 25% of all players on major league teams.
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Chapter 9: Social Class: Do Money and Power Matter in Sports
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Q1) The author points out that sports and other forms of exciting entertainment are culturally important because they can be used to
A)establish ideological outposts in the minds of people.
B)train soldiers for combat in hand-to-hand warfare.
C)discover how people think about world events.
D)help parents provide moral lessons to their children.
Q2) After looking at data on which nations and which athletes win medals at the Olympic and Paralympic Games,the author concludes that these events
A)present a level playing for opportunities to win medals.
B)a celebration of wealth and economic inequality.
C)are basically contests between wealthy socialist and poor capitalist nations.
D)provide people from poor nations a fair chance to succeed.
Q3) After reading the chapter on social class and sports,it is clear that in recent years
A)women and ethnic minorities have taken over most sport organizations.
B)affirmative action has changed who obtains top management jobs in sports.
C)white men have retained power and control in sport organizations.
D)government rules have caused white males to lose power in sports.
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Chapter 10: Age and Ability: Barriers to Participation and Inclusion
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Q1) The history of disability is a series of stories about how people in various cultures have given meaning to physical and intellectual "difference." "Disability" comes to exist when people with certain differences are defined as
A)others and given over to care by experts.
B)special people and embraced at the social center of a community.
C)God-given gifts that personify the meaning of humanness.
D)a burden to be borne by those who are able-bodied.
Q2) The belief that rigorous physical exercise enables people to stay youthful and healthy
A)can lead people to conclude that illness is a sign of irresponsibility.
B)provides hope that health care costs can be contained in an aging society.
C)has been proven repeatedly in research de by exercise physiologists.
D)is dangerous because older people don't know how to exercise properly.
Q3) Gender ideology influences the meaning given to one's body as we age.This influence is experienced by older
A)women,but not by men.
B)men in sports,but not by women in sports.
C)men and women in and out of sports.
D)women outside of sports,but not in sports.
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Chapter 11: Sports and the Economy: What Are the
Characteristics of Commercial Sports
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Q1) The Super Bowl is a unique event for corporate branding because it
A)attracts equal numbers of male and female television viewers.
B)allows sponsors into the locker rooms after the game.
C)people watch the event live rather than recording it for later viewing.
D)is widely viewed on computers where people access ads through links.
Q2) When changes in the legal status of athletes allow them to become "free agents," this means that the athletes may
A)sign a contract with the team that offers them the best deal.
B)unite with other athletes to force owners to increase salaries.
C)switch teams every season depending on who they want to play for.
D)hire an agent to represent them and negotiate a contract with a team.
Q3) Class relations are connected with commercial sports in any society because
A)low-income people use sports to resist traditional class ideology.
B)people with money promote and sponsor sports that fit their interests.
C)commercial sports usually recruit athletes from low-income backgrounds.
D)people are attracted to sports played by people with power and wealth.
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Chapter 12: Sports and the Media: Could They Survive
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Q1) Tensions between elite athletes and sportswriters exist primarily because A)there is a lack of trust between them.
B)journalists are controlled by teams and leagues.
C)athletes find it difficult to articulate their feelings about sport experiences.
D)sport management people tell athletes not to talk with journalists.
Q2) According to data in Table 12-1 and Figure 12-2,rights fees for major sports have
A)gone up and down with major economic trends.
B)increased steadily through 2013.
C)declined steadily between 2007 and 2013.
D)remained stable over the past 20 years.
Q3) The chapter on sports and the media is based on the assumption that A)human beings around the world are shaped by the media.
B)the power of the media has no limits.
C)media content informs people's lives and social worlds.
D)most people define the media as unimportant in their lives.
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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,the table showing total medal counts from 1896 to 2004 indicates that when the size of nations is taken into account
A)large Asian nations are rated very highly.
B)the United States is not rated in the top 25.
C)Cuba is rated number 1.
D)Scandinavian nations are rated very low.
Q2) The belief that participation in competitive sports lowers health care costs is
A)consistently supported by data from college and pro sports in the U.S.
B)promoted by corporate executives who have little concern for workers.
C)challenged by research on actual consequences of sport participation.
D)valid only in countries where overall working conditions are poor.
Q3) In the box,Olympism and the Olympic Games,the author explains that the Olympics is now designed primarily to
A)promote international peace and understanding.
B)help people understand and accept differences between cultures.
C)help people in the television audience visualize forms of global community.
D)promote the commercial interests of corporate sponsors.
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Chapter 14: Sports in High School and College: Do
Competitive Sports Contribute to Education
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Q1) The student spirit created by high school sports
A)has negative consequences for the academic performance of students.
B)is produced and maintained by an investment of considerable resources.
C)are like nothing else for producing student satisfaction with their school.
D)leads to forms of community service among groups of students.
Q2) Budget information for college athletic programs show that the programs could not exist with receive a significant amount of money from
A)faculty members.
B)local businesses.
C)student fees.
D)parking revenues.
Q3) Recently passed rules for defining academic progress and graduation rates for NCAA Division I teams shift more responsibility for academic reform to A)the athletes who have scholarships.
B)the parents of incoming athletes.
C)faculty mentors and advisors.
D)athletic departments and universities.
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Chapter 15:
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Q1) The combination of sports and Christianity has usually led to
A)a reaffirmation of the status quo in mainstream sports.
B)revolutionary changes in athletes' behaviors.
C)dramatic decreases in competitive spirit among athletes and coaches.
D)a significant increase in injury rates among athletes.
Q2) Mainstream Buddhism and Hinduism don't support competitive sports because they emphasize
A)transcending the self and the material world.
B)hard work and sacrifice as the means to salvation.
C)individualism and self-development.
D)the importance of fate and luck in everyday life.
Q3) The popularity of sports among men in Islamic nations is often tied to A)the religious beliefs of their fathers.
B)their ideas about modesty and humility.
C)the strength of their commitment to Islamic beliefs.
D)expressions of political and cultural nationalism.
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Chapter 16: Sports in the Future: What Do We
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Q1) Using cultural theories as a guide for changing sports would lead to an emphasis on A)achieving conservative and radical goals.
B)changing symbols,vocabularies,and ideologies.
C)changing socialization processes in families.
D)regulating economic processes related to funding priorities.
Q2) Organization and rationalization have a tendency to undermine the A)seriousness of sports.
B)desire to develop physical skills in sports.
C)ability of people to plan sports to fit into their lives.
D)element of play in sports.
Q3) The most important issue related to the use of technology in sports is A)how to ban all forms of genetic engineering.
B)regulating the ways that technologies are incorporated into sports.
C)developing laws to restrict the involvement of scientists in sports.
D)how to help girls and women overcome their fears about technology.
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