Sport and Social Change
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Course Introduction
Sport and Social Change examines the dynamic relationship between sports and broader social transformation. This course explores how sports both reflect and influence cultural values, societal norms, and power structures. Through historical and contemporary case studies, students analyze topics such as race, gender, class, politics, and identity in local and global sporting contexts. The course encourages critical thinking about the role of athletes and sporting organizations in advocating for equity, inclusion, and justice, and considers the potential of sport as a platform for challenging inequality and promoting positive social change.
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Social Dimensions of Canadian Sport and Physical Activity 1st Edition by Jane Crossman
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Chapter 1: Perspectives on the Social Dimensions of Sport and
Physical Activity in
Canada
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Q1) Which of the following activities would be of interest to a sociologist of sport?
A)shinny
B)old-timer hockey
C)softball
D)all of the above
Answer: D
Q2) Of the three sensitivities associated with the sociological imagination,_____ sensitivity is awareness that to truly understand the sporting present we must understand the sporting past.
A)comparative
B)critical
C)material
D)historical
Answer: D
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Chapter 2: Sociological Theories of Sport
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Q1) What is the central tool that sociologists use to understand the human world around is?
A)research
B)theory
C)common Sense
D)intuition
Answer: B
Q2) Good theory:
A)withstands the test of time
B)can be neither proven nor disproven
C)is virtually identical to common sense
D)is nothing more than ideas many people hold to be true
Answer: A
Q3) In general,theories:
A)seldom offer competing perspectives on any given topic
B)always complement one another as we conduct research on a given topic
C)provide indisputable truth about the nature of social and cultural life
D)offer both competing perspectives and potentially complement one another on a given topic
Answer: C
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Chapter 3: Canadian Sport in Historical Perspective
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Q1) When you are describing to your friend the work of a historian,which statement below would you be most likely to use?
A)History must be objective.
B)Historians never use theoretical perspectives.
C)An analysis of history depends on the questions asked by the historian.
D)History is essentially fiction.
Answer: C
Q2) In which year did federal government involvement in sport become paramount and pervasive?
A)1910
B)1940
C)1960
D)1990
Answer: C
Q3) Canada's first definition of amateurism (1873)clearly excluded:
A)women
B)elites
C)labourers
D)store owners
Answer: C
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Chapter 4: Sport and Social Stratification
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Q1) For Weber,there were three fundamental bases of power within a community.These are:
A)class,status,and political party
B)solidarity,party,and status
C)class,status,and prestige
D)political party,solidarity,and unions
Q2) Bourdieu's two key concepts integrating human agency and social structure are:
A)community and habitus
B)field and status
C)habitus and field
D)field and community
Q3) Which of the following does not accurately describe the top 1% of income earners in Canada's population?
A)predominantly male
B)better educated
C)work long hours
D)over age 65
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Chapter 5: Ethnicity and Race in Canadian Sport
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Q1) We learned from the 2011 National Household Survey that _____ of Canada's population is foreign born.
A)5%
B)20%
C)40%
D)53%
Q2) Slavery began in the geographic location now known as Canada in:
A)1867
B)1700
C)1628
D)There has never been slavery in Canada - either before or after Confederation.
Q3) Which of the following types of social capital refers to the trust and respect that can develop between people of diverse backgrounds and can lead to opportunities for people to interact outside their homogeneous group?
A)embedded social capital
B)cultural social capital
C)hegemonic social capital
D)autonomous social capital
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Chapter 6: Sex, Gender, and Sexuality
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Q1) As a theoretical perspective,social constructionism reminds us that:
A)that what is considered normal in terms of masculinity and femininity varies across cultures and time periods
B)masculinity is defined similarly across all cultures;femininity is not
C)femininity is a cultural universal in terms of the behaviours and appearance expected of women
D)biology determines both masculinity and femininity across all time periods
Q2) The argument that men produce more testosterone than women and therefore men play more contact sports is referred to by sociologists as:
A)social constructionism
B)biological determinism
C)structural-functionalism
D)symbolic interactionism
Q3) That many sports are still considered more appropriate for one sex than for the other is referred to as:
A)sport typing
B)sport desegregation
C)a sport binary
D)sport dualism
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Chapter 7: Children, Youth, and Parental Involvement in Organized Sport
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Q1) Police checks are mandatory in _____ for all volunteers who are going to work with children.
A)Canada
B)United States
C)Britain
D)France
Q2) Your 13-year-old son wants to participate in a regular Saturday afternoon basketball game at the Church of Latter Day Saints close to your house.You can anticipate that:
A)the costs for this program will be fairly high
B)your child will be introduced to the underlying values of the church
C)he will not be allowed to play if he is not proficient enough at basketball
D)his basketball skills will not improve at all in this program
Q3) The second most popular sport among Canadian youth is _____.
A)hockey
B)lacrosse
C)soccer
D)swimming
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Chapter 8: Sport Deviance
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Q1) To argue that there is nothing that is inherently deviant in sport in or in society is to approach your analysis from a/an _____ standpoint.
A)subjectivist
B)objectivist
C)psychological
D)pseudo-scientific
Q2) Perhaps the most notable example of the International Olympic Committee deviantizing women and policing gender boundaries is found in the practice of:
A)sex testing
B)steroid testing
C)using standardized body measurements
D)drug testing in general
Q3) The topic of _____ in sport has been,and still is,hotly contested and deeply politicized and ideological,according to the chapter on deviance in the text.
A)mandatory equipment
B)drugs
C)proper dress off the court,rink,etc.
D)public behaviour outside the game
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Chapter 9: Violence
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Q1) Michael Smith defines _____ as any behaviour designed to injure another person,psychologically or physically.
A)authority
B)power
C)violence
D)aggression
Q2) With whom do we associate the "value-added theory" of crowd behaviour?
A)Michael Messner
B)Michael Smith
C)Gustave LeBon
D)Neil Smelser
Q3) The most successful sports league is the United States is the _____ and in Canada the dominant sports business is the _____.
A)NBA;NHL
B)NFL;NCAA
C)NBA;CIS
D)NFL;NHL
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Chapter 10: Sport and Physical Activity in Canadian Educational Systems
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Q1) Joannie Halas from the University of Manitoba,who studied Aboriginal youth and their physical education experiences,found that:
A)because of their profound love of sport,Aboriginal youth enthusiastically embraced physical education classes in high school
B)many Aboriginal youth skipped physical education class because of explicit and implicit racism
C)most Aboriginal youth enjoyed physical education class but some preferred more feminized sport opportunities
D)that while swimming,for example,was tolerable as an activity,most Aboriginal youthboth male and female - would prefer to play only one sport per school year
Q2) The text notes that there are many external factors that erode the quality of physical education programs in Canadian schools.Which of the following is NOT noted as one of these external factors?
A)inadequate facilities and equipment
B)the introduction of user fees
C)an increase in standardized testing in literacy and numeracy
D)increases student interest in video games and internet use in general
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Chapter 11: Sport, Media, and Ideology
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Q1) The sports-media complex share not only economic interests but also _____ interests.
A)ideological
B)cultural
C)societal
D)traditional
Q2) The era of televised hockey began in Canada in what year?
A)1942
B)1952
C)1962
D)1972
Q3) Because mostly male enthusiasts spend vast amounts of time online taking stock of injuries,player statistics,and other such trends and patterns in the world of professional sport,fantasy sport leagues can be referred to as:
A)attention multipliers
B)banal nationalism
C)gendered sport
D)hegemonic masculinity
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Chapter 12: Sports, Politics, and Policy
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Q1) The Hosting Program,a major federal funding program for sport,would support all of the following,except:
A)the Olympics
B)the Paralympics
C)Canada Games
D)Intramural sport programs
Q2) Leslie Pal's classification system notes two broad categories that refer to tools of action and inaction by governments to implement policies or programs.With respect to tools of inaction,Pal addresses three types of such tools available to government.Which is NOT one of these types of tools?
A)information
B)expenditures
C)regulations
D)coercion
Q3) Government funding is expected for all of the following,except:
A)high performance sport
B)constructing venues for mega-sport events
C)historical analysis of sport
D)grassroots sports
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Chapter 13: The Business of Sport
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Q1) North American sports franchises generate revenue from five sources.Which of the following is NOT one of these sources?
A)game day ticket sales,concessions,and parking
B)local television and radio broadcasting agreements
C)international advertising
D)postseason appearance revenue
Q2) How have professional athletes responded to monopsony power?
A)by striking periodically throughout history for higher wages and control over the league
B)by forming players' unions that exert monopoly power
C)by not playing to the best of their ability in order to reduce ticket sales
D)by phoning in sick before a game in a prearranged rotation
Q3) Sports leagues achieve monopoly status by doing all of the following,except:
A)prevent new competition
B)restrict output quantity and increase prices
C)produce a heterogeneous product
D)agree how to share monopoly power
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Chapter 14: Globalization and Society
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Q1) Special-interest television channels aimed at niche markets are referred to as:
A)narrow-casting
B)streamlined broadcasting
C)constricted channels
D)tapered television
Q2) Which of the following is TRUE?
A)Professional sport was a business from its inception,in both North America and Europe.
B)Professional sport was never meant to be a "business," in the traditional sense of the word.
C)Professional sport was based on a business model but never operated as such.
D)Professional sport in Europe was always a business,but the same was not true in North America until about 25 years ago.
Q3) Which of the following is not a transnational corporation?
A)Nike
B)Toyota
C)News Corp
D)The Bay
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Chapter 15: Sport and the Future
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Q1) You are hired by a large transnational sporting goods manufacturer to aid in the production of advertising for their products to a new group of consumers in a foreign country.What would you argue should be your primary concern?
A)the target audience for the products
B)the price of the products
C)the shapes and colours of the products
D)the country of origin of the sports associated with the products
Q2) Governments guided by neoliberal principles will:
A)increase funding for social programs intended to deal with societal problems
B)increase funding for research into appropriate programs for a society's problems
C)decrease funding for social programs intended to deal with societal problems
D)demonstrate an increased interest in social programs of all types
Q3) The usual participants of parkour are:
A)young females
B)older females
C)young males
D)older males
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