Sport and Society
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Course Introduction
Sport and Society explores the complex relationship between athletic activity and the broader social world. This course examines how sports both reflect and influence cultural values, social structures, and group identities. Topics include the role of sports in community building, the impact of gender, race, and class dynamics in athletic contexts, the influence of media and commercialization, and the use of sport as a platform for social change. Through critical analysis and case studies, students will gain an understanding of how sport shapes and is shaped by societal norms and issues.
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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
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Q1) The ability of individuals and groups to act independently in a goal-directed manner and to pursue their own free choices is referred to as:
A)social structure
B)agency
C)the sociological imagination
D)hegemony
Answer: B
Q2) The sociology of sport emerged as an area of academic study in the:
A)1940s
B)1960s
C)1980s
D)1990s
Answer: B
Q3) 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
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Chapter 2: Sociological Theories of Sport
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Q1) When we examine sport in ancient Greece and compare it to sport today,we find that:
A)sport in ancient Greece was very similar to sport today
B)sport in ancient Greece was less violent than sport today
C)sport today,with its handshake at the end of a competition,was adapted from the Greek tradition of handslapping
D)sport in ancient Greece was far more violent than sport today
Answer: D
Q2) Ideas about what Canada is and what constitutes a true Canadian are imbued with assumptions about race.Who,of the following,would be most likely to make this statement?
A)a functionalist
B)a critical race theorist
C)a feminist theorist
D)a symbolic interactionist
Answer: B
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Chapter 3: Canadian Sport in Historical Perspective
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Q1) Canada's first definition of amateurism (1873)clearly excluded:
A)women
B)elites
C)labourers
D)store owners
Answer: C
Q2) The first classic sport hero in Canada was Ned Hanlan.Which of the following sets of characteristics best describe Mr.Hanlan?
A)professional oarsman,Irish descent,and working class
B)professional lacrosse goaltender,English descent,and upper class
C)professional cricket player,Indian,and working class
D)professional hockey forward,English descent,and upper class
Answer: A
Q3) As a member of the Edmonton Grads,a women's basketball team,you would have been
Subjected to all of the following off-court rules,except:
A)you will remain single
B)you will be chaperoned at all team events
C)you will not smoke or drink
D)you will remain thin and fit
Answer: D
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Chapter 4: Sport and Social Stratification
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Q1) On which of the following points does Giddens agree with Weber?
A)Divisions within classes can be numerous and complex.
B)Class is a multidimensional phenomenon.
C)Class structuration is strongly developed at three levels.
D)Class involves am objective element.
Q2) Socioeconomic status (SES)is a composite indicator of:
A)income,education,and age
B)education,occupation,and income
C)gender,age,and income
D)education,gender,and occupation
Q3) Bourdieu refers to a system of dispositions representing a practical sense of how to conduct one's actions as:
A)field
B)community
C)structuration
D)habitus
Q4) Between 1980 and 2007,the top quintile of income earners in Canada:
A)saw their proportion of the total income available decrease
B)saw their proportion of the total income available increase
C)saw their proportion of the total income available stay the same
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Chapter 5: Ethnicity and Race in Canadian Sport
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Q1) John,a white male,has been excluded from participating in the North American Indigenous Games.Many people would refer to this as:
A)ethnocentric distortion
B)hegemony
C)reverse racism
D)two-eyed seeing
Q2) 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
Q3) Which of the following is TRUE?
A)We know ourselves and our culture in part through our bodies.
B)Students not involved in sport learn nothing about themselves.
C)Lack of involvement in sport leads to an inability to interact with others.
D)We learn little of value about our culture through sport.
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Chapter 6: Sex, Gender, and Sexuality
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Q1) In Canada,42% of those registered in _____ are female - one of the highest female sport participation rates of any sport.
A)hockey
B)football
C)baseball
D)soccer
Q2) 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
Q3) The classificatory scheme whereby we divide humans into groups based on their reproduction capacities is known as:
A)gender
B)sex
C)sexuality
D)sexual orientation
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Chapter 7: Children, Youth, and Parental Involvement in Organized Sport
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Q1) 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
Q2) _____ is the process of learning and adapting to a given social system and is the means by which society preserves its norms and perpetuates itself.
A)Integration
B)Culture
C)Socialization
D)Internalization
Q3) One of the most alarming effects of sport specialization has been the:
A)decreased enjoyment by the child
B)increased risk of overuse injuries
C)decreased benefit in terms of fitness
D)lack of impact on childhood obesity
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Chapter 8: Sport Deviance
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Q1) Colour-blindness furnishes acceptable ways to:
A)prevent women from engaging in some sports
B)reject race-sensitive equity policies
C)promote diversity on sport teams
D)encourage ethnic equality in children's sports
Q2) When studying deviance and sport,you decide to look at the ways particular ideas about what constitutes deviance come to be and how these ideas are produced and enforced.This approach to the study of deviance is rooted in:
A)the work of Karl Marx and materialism
B)C.Wright Mills and his concept of "sociological imagination"
C)Talcott Parsons and his theory of complementary roles
D)George Herbert Mead's conception of the self
Q3) A central component of BASE ethics is the expectation:
A)that the media will be notified about any jump
B)that jumpers will notify local jumpers when visiting an area
C)that jumping in your local area will be posted online for jumpers outside the area
D)that visiting jumpers will only jump with someone local to the area
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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) _____ is defined as a healthy venting of aggression that reduces the risk of further,more dangerous manifestations of violence.
A)Aggression
B)Frustration
C)Catharsis
D)Pankration
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Chapter 10: Sport and Physical Activity in Canadian Educational Systems
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Q1) What limited research exists in the area of the relationship between academic achievement and sports suggests that:
A)student-athletes complete four year degrees in four years
B)student-athletes have higher GPAs than non-student-athletes
C)student-athletes have lower graduation rates than non-student-athletes
D)most student-athletes attend graduate school,often in kinesiology
Q2) In their research study,Enright and O'Sullivan found that many adolescent females:
A)preferred team-oriented sports in and out of school
B)wanted to play on male-only sports teams
C)preferred physical activities that are individual and non-competitive
D)preferred to not take physical education class at all
Q3) 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) Which of the following is FALSE regarding CBC losing the rights to televise Hockey Night in Canada?
A)CBC can easily replace HNIC with Canadian and American dramas.
B)CBC will be in financial peril without HNIC.
C)CBC cannot afford to replace HNIC with dramas.
D)The cost to replace HNIC with dramas is between $240 and $300 million.
Q2) Sport commentary that reflects a viewing audience that is working and lower-middle class tends to be:
A)reverent
B)overly descriptive
C)humble
D)overly deferential
Q3) The sports-media complex share not only economic interests but also _____ interests.
A)ideological
B)cultural
C)societal
D)traditional
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Chapter 12: Sports, Politics, and Policy
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Q1) 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
Q2) Which of the following is TRUE with respect to Canada's Constitution and sport?
A)There is nothing in the Constitution on sport.
B)The Constitution only mentions sport in the context of health.
C)Sport is mentioned several times in the Constitution with regards to men only.
D)Sport is covered quite thoroughly in the Constitution,with regard to human rights.
Q3) With regard to sport and the onset of World War II,the Canadian federal government turned its attention passing the National Physical Fitness Act in order to:
A)divert citizens' attentions to something less depressing than war
B)socially prepare people to engage in war both at home and abroad
C)physically prepare citizens to serve in the war
D)emotionally aid Canadians for the inevitable loss of lives
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Chapter 13: The Business of Sport
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Q1) A work stoppage in a professional sports league that involves the ownership not allowing the players to perform,even though they are willing,is referred to as a:
A)lockout
B)strike
C)cartel
D)collective bargain
Q2) 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
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) In Canada's first free trade agreement with the United States,as well as the subsequent NAFTA,Canada did everything it could to keep _____ out of the agreements.
A)sports
B)politics
C)culture
D)economics
Q2) How would you describe to your parents how the owners of sports teams have changed with globalization over the past 40 years?
A)Owners are more likely to be prominent local citizens than ever before.
B)Owners tend to be local people who want to have a prestigious hobby.
C)Sports teams are more likely now to be owned by corporations.
D)Teams are less likely now to be owned by those investing in venture that they hope will pay off in a big way in the end.
Q3) Who,of the following,is most likely to own a sports team in the 21 century?
A)the owner of a large local manufacturing company
B)a relatively small group of local small business owners
C)a large group of female middle managers
D)major investors from outside the community
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Chapter 15: Sport and the Future
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Q1) According to one of Brian Wilson's predictions for the future of sport in Canada,what will be the future role of NGOs?
A)They will continue to,and perhaps increasingly,work to fill the gaps in sport left by governments.
B)They will work with governments to provide services to those who can afford user fees.
C)They will likely diminish in size and number as governments increase their efforts to provide sport programs to all in Canada.
D)They will shift their focus away from sport to social problems of a more national concern.
Q2) You and a group of colleagues who conduct sport research believe that you should challenge and undermine some of the basic assumptions that underlie the current system of sport.You are all likely:
A)functionalists
B)critical theorists
C)conflict theorists
D)feminists
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