Sport and Social Issues
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This course examines the dynamic relationship between sports and major social issues, exploring how athletic activities both reflect and influence society. Students will analyze topics such as race, gender, class, globalization, politics, and media representation within the context of sports. Through case studies, theoretical frameworks, and current events, the course encourages critical thinking about the impact of sports on cultural identities, social change, and issues of inequality, while considering how sporting institutions and personalities participate in broader social debates.
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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) Physical activity participation rates are most likely to be high in a society when the definition of sport focuses on
A)challenging activities that produce an adrenaline rush for participants.
B)organized, competitive activities played at scheduled times and places.
C)those activities that will enable athletes to win Olympic medals.
D)a wide range of physical activities that are pleasurable for participants.
Answer: D
Q2) One of the most hotly contested aspects of sports in society is
A)who plays sports under what conditions.
B)whether scientists should study sports.
C)the process for making up rules in specific games.
D)who can identify themselves athletes in relationships with others.
Answer: A
Q3) Which of the following is not one of the three key concepts used in sociology?
A)Social structure.
B)Social conflict.
C)Social interaction.
D)Culture.
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) Theories that explain what is known about the ways that people express their values, ideas, and beliefs are called
A)structural theories.
B)action theories.
C)cultural theories.
D)interactionist theories.
Answer: C
Q2) When sociologists do ethnographies, data are collected in the field through
A)surveys combined with narrative analysis.
B)in-depth interviews combined with a deconstruction of narratives and images.
C)the use of quantitative methods.
D)observations and in-depth interviews.
Answer: D
Q3) When sociologists study socialization as it occurs in sports, they are most likely to be guided by
A)structural theories.
B)transmission theories.
C)gender theories.
D)interactionist theories.
Answer: D
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Chapter 3: Sports and Socialization: Who Plays and What Happens to Them
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Q1) Most people in the sociology of sport today do not see sports as causes of specific socialization outcomes.Instead, they view sports as
A)health and wellness activities.
B)commercial activities unrelated to social development.
C)negative activities that distort the way that people see the world.
D)sites for experiences that influence different people in different ways.
Answer: D
Q2) After doing in-depth interviews with British adolescents from working class British families, Anita White and Jay Coakley concluded that sport participation among these young people was the result of
A)the policies and programs of the British Sports Council.
B)continuous decisions made over time by young people.
C)rapidly changing fads related to fitness and sports.
D)influence coming from other young people they knew and respected.
Answer: B
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Chapter 4: Sports for Children: Are Organized Programs
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Q1) Research indicates that the talent development process for people who excel in a particular activity begins with
A)an understanding that sacrifice and constant practice are required.
B)structured activities and adult guidance.
C)exploration, unstructured play, and expressive fun in an activity.
D)highly repetitive experiences organized around a particular activity.
Q2) The expert panel that developed the Youth Sports National Report Card also explained that youth sports in the United States
A)suffered from a lack of interest on the part of parents.
B)needed more improvement in officiating than in any major topic area.
C)had problems because children today have little interest in sports.
D)had lost its child-centered focus.
Q3) The author notes that it will be difficult to change youth sports because
A)they enable parents to have more free tie for themselves.
B)youth sport coaches have formed a union to resist change.
C)they are often organized by adults as businesses.
D)government regulations prevent changes from occurring.
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Chapter 5: Deviance in Sports: Is It Out of Control
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Q1) A constructionist approach to deviance is based on the assumption that
A)most ideas, traits, and actions fall into a normally accepted range.
B)the more an action departs from an ideal, the more deviant it is.
C)all deviance involves overconformity to norms.
D)all deviance involves underconformity to norms.
Q2) A social constructionist approach to deviance is based on
A)unchanging ideas about right and wrong.
B)a combination of cultural, interactionist, and structural theories.
C)the idea that any departure from moral ideals is a form of deviance.
D)the assumption that all people who engage in deviance lack moral character.
Q3) According to a constructionist approach, both norms and deviance are A)unchangeable.
B)determined only by judges and courts.
C)based on religious ideals.
D)socially constructed through interaction.
Q4) 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.
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Chapter 6: Violence in Sports: How
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Q1) Social historians suggest that violence remains an issue in sports because
A)sports are designed to create tension and excitement.
B)coaches have little training in strategies of violence control.
C)the personalities of athletes have become more violent over time.
D)spectators are less civilized today than they were in the past.
Q2) The chapter is organized partly around a typology of violence developed by Mike Smith.Which of the following is NOT one of the categories in his typology?
A)Criminal violence.
B)Borderline violence.
C)Intentional violence.
D)Brutal body contact.
Q3) The primary goal of the suggestions for controlling spectator violence is to create A)fear and anxiety among spectators.
B)create new antiviolence norms among spectators.
C)a policing system that is covert and unseen by spectators.
D)events that limit emotional expression among spectators.
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Chapter 7: Gender and Sports: Is Equity Possible
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Q1) Dominant gender ideology in many societies today is organized around three ideas and beliefs.Which of the following is NOT one of the ideas or beliefs?
A)men are more naturally suited to possess power and be leaders than women are.
B)women are destined by fate to be inferior to men in family structures.
C)human beings are either male or female in terms of sex.
D)forms of sexuality other than heterosexuality is considered abnormal or deviant.
Q2) Sport participation can empower girls and women as individuals, but
A)as an institution, sport remains gendered so it reaffirms heterosexual male power.
B)this empowerment is usually undermined by serious injuries.
C)they lose that sense of empowerment if they promote feminist goals.
D)their empowerment leads directly to the disempowerment of boys and men.
Q3) When gender activists talk about the "queering of sport," they are referring to
A)a process of revising the two-sex system and making sports gender-inclusive.
B)outing gay and lesbian athletes to force public discussions of sexuality.
C)embarrassing homophobic coaches and administrators in public.
D)creating new sports organized around the lived experiences of LGBTIs.
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Chapter 8: Race and Ethnicity:
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Q1) Dominant racial ideology in the U.S.during most of the 20<sup>th</sup> century was based on the belief that whiteness was a pure and innately special racial category.This belief
A)enabled all ethnic groups from Europe to qualify for immediate citizenship.
B)has created a deep cultural acceptance of racial segregations and inequalities.
C)has provided strong support for affirmative action policies.
D)created a link between skin color and athletic potential.
Q2) When European peoples were exploring and colonizing the globe, they developed racial classification systems and ideologies allowing them to conclude that
A)white-skinned people deserved their power around the world.
B)dark-skinned people had histories similar to histories of white Europeans.
C)dark-skinned people were physically handicapped.
D)people from cold climates were stronger than people from warm climates.
Q3) Racial ideology became important to support Jim Crow Laws.These laws
A)made it illegal to hire black workers.
B)forced blacks to stay in southern states.
C)enforced racial segregation in public settings.
D)defined all people from southern Europe as "colored."
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Chapter 9: Social Class: Do Money and Power Matter in Sports
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Q1) When school sports depend on corporate sponsors, the main problem is that
A)corporate executives want free tickets to all games.
B)corporations usually sponsor only the sports that promote their interests.
C)corporations demand that athletes also are good students.
D)many corporate stockholders are strongly opposed to public education.
Q2) As defined in the chapter, social class refers to
A)the social skills and sophistication of individuals in society.
B)groups of people who generally vote for the same candidates.
C)categories of people who share an economic position in society.
D)mythical ideas about economic inequalities and life chances.
Q3) Data suggest that opportunities for African Americans in sports are
A)more scarce in team sports than in individual sports.
B)greater than they are in traditional professions such as medicine and law.
C)generally insignificant for the African American population as a whole.
D)more plentiful for African American women than for men.
Q4) Many people in North America believe that sports are
A)organized so that hard work isn't important.
B)activities in which luck is more important than skill and good fortune.
C)played only by people in the working class.
D)models of social equality and meritocracy.
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Chapter 10: Age and Ability: Barriers to Participation and Inclusion
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Q1) As they become older, people in the baby boom generation in the United States
A)are less physically active than previous generations of older people.
B)are more physically active than previous generations of older people.
C)have higher rates of exercise-induced injuries than past generations.
D)are not regularly active because social security is their only source of income.
Q2) To be eligible to participate in the Paralympics, each athlete must be classified according to his or her physical impairment.This classification must be done by
A)the athlete's general practitioner who has examined and treated the athlete regularly.
B)the athlete's parents and a general practitioner.
C)trained experts who do full examinations and evaluations of the athlete.
D)at least two other athletes who can describe and substantiate the impairment.
Q3) People in the baby boom generation in the United States are
A)challenging ageist beliefs and myths about older people.
B)not living as long as their parents.
C)generally less active than their parents.
D)having more children than previous generations.
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Chapter 11: Sports and the Economy: What Are the
Characteristics of Commercial Sports
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Q1) After reviewing the arguments and counter arguments for spending public money to subsidize stadiums and pro sport team owners, the author concludes that
A)subsidies are justified if team owners are truly needy.
B)public money is better spent on projects other than building a stadium.
C)wealthy spectators deserve to have public money used to subsidize their leisure.
D)major economic recessions would occur if subsidies were discontinued.
Q2) 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.
Q3) Action sport athlete Shaun Palmer has Cadillac tattoos.In a commercial sport context, this creates tensions around A)relationships between athletes.
B)who owns Palmer's body.
C)the role of General Motors in action sports.
D)the amount of coverage given to tattoo artists.
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Chapter 12: Sports and the Media: Could They Survive
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Q1) Golf and tennis are frequently covered sports on television because they
A)have more viewers than most other sport events.
B)are tied to the real estate and corporate interests of television executives.
C)attract revenues from companies hoping to reach high-income consumers.
D)have a special character that attracts people interested in pure sports.
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.
Q4) At this point in time, people generally use online access to
A)extend and complement what other media already provide.
B)shift their attention to sports they've never played.
C)calculate the statistics they need to play fantasy sports.
D)interact directly with mainstream media announcers.
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Chapter 13: Sports and Politics: How Do Governments and Global
Political Processes Influence Sports
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Q1) Research shows that if maintaining health and fitness is the goal, a nation should sponsor sports that are
A)noncompetitive and have aerobic benefits.
B)based on a power and performance model.
C)attractive to spectators as well as active participants.
D)competitive and have important rewards for winners.
Q2) Sports in recent years have become framed in new terms.Which of the following best describes this change?
A)Commercial interests have become increasingly important.
B)National loyalties and national identities are no longer important.
C)Events are now athletic-political rather than athletic-economic.
D)Politicians arrange most events today for persaonal purposes.
Q3) As corporations sponsor more of the media coverage of international sports, sports events have become vehicles for presenting messages
A)to spectator-citizens.
B)on behalf of environmental groups.
C)in the interest of world-wide socialism.
D)to spectator-consumers.
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Chapter 14: Sports in High School and College: Do
Competitive
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Q1) Research shows that when high school athletes as a group are compared to other high school students, they tend to have
A)lower grades but more interest in continuing their education.
B)higher grades and more positive attitudes toward school.
C)lower grades and more positive attitudes toward school.
D)higher grades but less interest in continuing their education.
Q2) As high school programs depend more on the families of athletes and local businesses to support varsity teams we see
A)greater inequality in the athletic programs at different schools.
B)teams in low income areas become more successful.
C)private schools dropping their sport programs.
D)public schools winning mre state championships.
Q3) The NCAA wants to avoid any situation in which college athletes could be considered employees because
A)this would give college athletes the rights of workers.
B)athletes would then be able to sue football coaches for discrimination.
C)the organization would lose its ability to govern college sports.
D)this would force the government to abolish their enforcement of Title IX.
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Chapter 15: Sports and Religions: Is
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Q1) Religion can become a means of social control in sports when
A)athletes use religious beliefs to raise moral issues about sports.
B)parents encourage their children to be Christian athletes.
C)sport performances are connected with the moral worth of athletes.
D)athletes say private prayers to avoid injuries.
Q2) Combining traditional Christian religious beliefs with the dominant forms of sports sometimes creates challenges for athletes because Christianity emphasizes
A)aggression, whereas sports emphasize following rules.
B)humility and service, whereas sports emphasize personal success.
C)training the body, whereas sports emphasize sacrificing the body.
D)that bodies are strong, whereas sports emphasize that bodies are weak.
Q3) When sociologists study religion and religious beliefs, they often distinguish the sacred from the secular.According to this distinction,
A)both sports and religions are considered to be sacred.
B)the secular consists of anything associated with the supernatural.
C)religions are always associated with the sacred.
D)the sacred consists of things in the here-and-now world.
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