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Sport and Society Exam Bank
Course Introduction
This course explores the intricate relationship between sport and society, examining how sporting activities, organizations, and events reflect, influence, and are influenced by social, cultural, economic, and political forces. Students will analyze topics such as the role of sport in identity formation, issues of race, gender, and class in sports, the commercialization and globalization of sport, and the ways in which sport serves as a medium for social change. Through a combination of theoretical frameworks and case studies, the course encourages critical thinking about the significance of sport in shaping societal norms, values, and institutions.
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Sports in Society Issues and Controversies12th Edition by Jay Coakley
Chapter 1: The Sociology of Sport: What Is It and Why Study
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Q1) Gender ideology refers to
A)ideas and beliefs based on scientific research about gender.
B)idealized definitions of how boys and girls ought to be raised.
C)ideas and beliefs about masculinity and femininity.
D)the biological origins of manhood and womanhood.
Answer: C
Q2) When girls and women first challenged dominant gender ideology by entering the male world of sports,they were
A)defined by most people as heroic.
B)seen as sexually attractive.
C)welcomed by men.
D)demonized as abnormal and immoral.
Answer: D
Q3) Sport facilities and programs are most likely to be supported by government agencies and tax money when people see sports as A)promoting the development of individuals.
B)benefiting the expansion of particular businesses.
C)contributing to the common good.
D)reaffirming the status quo.
Answer: C
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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) 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) The author explains that he uses a critical approach when studying sports in society.As a result,many of the discussions in Sports in Society emphasize A)fairness and equity issues.
B)personal development and self-esteem.
C)social progress depends on the motivation of leaders.
D)the need for clear rules and ethical standards.
Answer: A
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Chapter 3: Sports and Socialization: Who Plays and What Happens to Them
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Q1) When evaluating research on what happens in sports,it's important not to overlook the fact that
A)different sports offer all athletes the same experiences.
B)the meanings that people give to sports remain the same over time.
C)sports offer experiences that are not available in other activities.
D)different people define similar sport experiences in different ways.
Answer: D
Q2) A widespread belief long held by many people in North America is that playing sports
A)builds character among participants.
B)should not be encouraged until children are 12 years old.
C)is beneficial for girls but not for boys.
D)over long periods of time interferes with character development.
Answer: A
Q3) Data on sports and obesity indicate that
A)obesity rates are usually low in societies where sports are popular.
B)players in the NFL have the lowest obesity rates of all pro athletes.
C)athletes learn good eating practices when they play competitive sports.
D)the popularity of sports does not automatically lead to reduced obesity rates.
Answer: D
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Chapter 4: Sports for Children: Are Organized Programs
Worth the Effort
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Q1) Sport facilities and programs are most likely to be supported by government agencies and tax money when people see sports as
A)promoting the development of individuals.
B)benefiting the expansion of particular businesses.
C)contributing to the common good.
D)reaffirming the status quo.
Q2) An overall comparison of informal sports and organized sports shows that
A)informal sports are action-centered while organized sports are rule-centered.
B)both informal sports and organized sports are rule-centered.
C)informal sports are player-centered and organized sports are action-centered.
D)neither informal sports nor organized sports are action-centered.
Q3) A specific recommendation for change made in the chapter is to
A)use external rewards to motivate children to practice sport skills.
B)teach children to play one aspect of one sport very well.
C)increase opportunities for players to reaffirm their friendships.
D)add more referees and umpires to control action in games.
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Chapter 5: Deviance in Sports: Is It Out of Control
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Q1) Sport programs that are designed as "interventions" for "at risk youth" are seldom successful because they
A)are managed by people who have no knowledge of crime and delinquency.
B)do nothing to change the conditions in which these youth live their lives.
C)attract the young people with the most serious criminal records.
D)force young people to reject the communities where they live.
Q2) According to the author,winning is important to long time professional athletes because they
A)have made commitments to their coaches.
B)are addicted to their own celebrity status.
C)don't want to disappoint their fans.
D)want to remain in their sports.
Q3) Controlling deviant overconformity in sports requires a close examination of the A)backgrounds of athletes,coaches,and spectators.
B)economics of sport.
C)moral characters of athletes and coaches.
D)meaning and organization of sports.
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Chapter 6: Violence in Sports: Does It Affect Our Lives
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Q1) Loic Wacquant's study of an inner-city boxing gym in Chicago indicated that the boxers
A)were eager to use their fighting skills to protect themselves on the streets.
B)learned to control violent actions as they learned the craft of boxing.
C)joined the gym to learn violence in an organized setting.
D)were motivated by hate for fellow boxers who trained at other gyms.
Q2) Sport spectators at North American stadiums and arenas are
A)loud and expressive but not generally violent.
B)more violent than their counterparts in Europe and Latin America.
C)likely to see sport events in political terms and use them as protest sites.
D)seldom policed when entering venues where professional teams play.
Q3) Preventing or minimizing CTE through the use of helmets and other head protection equipment has not been successful because helmets
A)are not always used in practices.
B)that stabilize the brain are too expensive.
C)are so heavy that they put pressure on the brain.
D)helmets cannot stop the brain from moving inside the skull.
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Chapter 7: Gender and Sports: Is Equity Possible
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Q1) Research indicates that girls and women often feel certain things when they develop strength through sport participation.Which of the following is NOT one of the things?
A)They feel that they are physically competent.
B)They feel that they are more in control of their physical safety.
C)They feel that their bodies will be perceived as attractive to others.
D)They feel that they are less vulnerable.
Q2) Acosta and Carpenter's 40-year longitudinal study of trends related to gender in intercollegiate sports indicates that women
A)hold the majority of sports information jobs in athletic departments.
B)hold more coaching jobs in men's programs than in women's programs.
C)coach proportionately fewer women's sport teams today than in 1977.
D)receive the majority of administrative jobs in women's sport programs.
Q3) People maintain a silence about gay men in sports primarily because
A)there are so few gay men who play sports.
B)gay men don't want to live publicly as gay.
C)men have much to lose if gender boundaries are blurred.
D)most men who play sports are latent homosexuals.
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Chapter 8: Race and Ethnicity:
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Q1) The idea of race was first developed by
A)European explorers as they encountered diverse people around the globe.
B)Egyptians when they needed slave labor to build the pyramids.
C)Puritans in American colonies as they interacted with "Indians."
D)South Africans as they met explorers sailing around the people from cold climates were stronger than people from warm climates.
Q2) Research suggests that racial ideology would most interfere with the establishment of academic identities among
A)white females who do not play sports.
B)black females who do not play sports.
C)black male athletes.
D)white male athletes.
Q3) Data show that sport participation rates in the U.S.are highest in A)low-income black communities.
B)racially mixed communities.
C)middle- and upper-middle income white communities.
D)low-income communities regardless of their racial makeup.
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Chapter 9: Social Class: Do Money and Power Matter in Sports
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Q1) Data on athletic scholarships in NCAA schools indicate that
A)more athletic scholarships are available for men's sports than for women's sports.
B)nearly all athletes in all NCAA divisions receive some form of athletic aid.
C)athletic scholarships guarantee that athletes will graduate in 6 years.
D)more students receive full athletic scholarships than is popularly believed.
Q2) When sports in a society are tied to an ideology that stresses the belief that success is based on the ability to compete against and defeat opponents,sports tend to
A)work against the interests of wealthy and powerful people.
B)promote worker productivity and satisfaction.
C)reproduce the power and influence of elite groups in society.
D)provide unique opportunities for people from low-income groups.
Q3) 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.
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Chapter 10: Age and Ability: Barriers to Participation and Inclusion
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Q1) The medical model of disability has remained popular for many years in the United States because
A)people with a disability are true victims of society.
B)medical technology can heal nearly all impairments.
C)people with a disability consider themselves to be inferior.
D)many people continue to accept ableist ideology.
Q2) The decisions to ban and then reinstate eligibility in the Oscar Pistorius case raises questions about the
A)training methods used by athletes with disabilities.
B)moral character of elite athletes.
C)processes through which deviance is defined in sports.
D)need to ban all forms of technology in sports.
Q3) 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.
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Chapter 11: Sports and the Economy: What Are the Characteristics of
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Q1) Which of the following is most likely to be emphasized in commercial sports?
A)The style and excitement of movement by athletes.
B)The technical physical abilities of athletes.
C)The willingness of athletes to explore limits without surpassing them.
D)The commitment that athletes have to stay in their sports.
Q2) The emergence and growth of commercial sports depends on whether they
A)attract the attention and support of powerful political leaders.
B)generate revenues from multiple sources.
C)present fans with exciting,uncontrolled forms of violence.
D)eliminate competing forms of entertainment in society.
Q3) In the box,Extreme Heroic Action,sociologist Brendan Maguire uses structural theory to hypothesize that professional wrestling is popular in social worlds characterized by A)strong community ties.
B)anxiety and social disenchantment.
C)weak forms of social control.
D)traditional gender relations.
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Chapter 12: Sports and the Media: Could They Survive
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Q1) In recent years,80-percent of the highest rated television programs in the United States have been
A)Major League Baseball World Series games.
B)professional wrestling matches.
C)NFL games.
D)men's track and field events in the Olympic Games.
Q2) When the media are privately owned and depend on audience ratings,televised sport events are "reproduced" in a way that usually emphasizes A)forms of soap opera storytelling.
B)a critical perspective on sports and sport participants.
C)how much work goes into preparing for a sport event.
D)the specific technical skills of athletes.
Q3) When sport journalists ignore in their coverage the dynamics of living in a white-dominated,white-identified,and white-centered society,they
A)reproduce dominant racial ideology as they claim to be color blind.
B)allow all athletes to escape the influence of race in their sport.
C)ultimately serve as positive role models in the society as a whole.
D)help white athletes get along with teammates from diverse racial backgrounds.
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Chapter 13: Sports and Politics: How Do Governments and Global
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Q1) When governments sponsor sports and political officials associate themselves with sports,their primary purpose is often to
A)increase their power in international politics.
B)increase their legitimacy in the eyes of citizens.
C)show voters that sports are connected with politics.
D)gain political credibility among journalists.
Q2) When government organizations regulate access to sport facilities and make rules about who can play sports under what circumstances,the intent is to
A)improve fitness and health among disadvantaged people.
B)increase the legitimacy of their control over people.
C)safeguard the public order.
D)promote community integration and solidarity.
Q3) Changes in global politics over the past three decades have made international sports
A)less important than in the Cold War era of the past.
B)more important as political events than as commercial events.
C)important stages for commercial displays by transnational corporations.
D)less profitable for all sponsors,including corporate sponsors.
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Chapter 14: Sports in High School and College: Do
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Q1) When the football team at Northwestern University petitioned the National Labor Relations Board to form a union,which of the following was not one of their goals?
A)To force the university to take player safety and head injuries more seriously.
B)To limit the hours that coaches could make them practice each week.
C)To have health insurance to cover football injuries after eligibility ends.
D)To be paid "fair market value" based on the revenues they produce.
Q2) The liability issues related to concussions and other serious injuries are different in high schools than they are in colleges.This is because
A)high school students are less likely to hire lawyers.
B)concussions in high school sports are less harmful than in college sports.
C)high school rules generally prevent serious injuries to athletes.
D)few high school athletes have reached the age of informed legal consent.
Q3) When comparing big-time and lower-profile intercollegiate sport programs it is seen that
A)both types of programs are the same when it comes to rewards for athletes.
B)very few athletes in lower-profile programs have athletic scholarships.
C)most athletes in big-time programs have pro sport careers after college.
D)most U.S.colleges and universities have big-time sports programs.
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Chapter 15: Sports and Religions: Is
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Q1) Which of the following is NOT one of the strategies used by Christian athletes use when they doubt the worth of their sport participation as an act of worship?
A)Developing friendships with non-Christian athletes.
B)Ignoring the moral questions related to behavior on the playing field.
C)Focusing on the ascetic dimensions of athletic training and performance.
D)Focusing on good works and service to others off the field.
Q2) 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.
Q3) When social constructionists study sports and religions, they assume that meanings associated with each of these spheres of life
A)emphasize issues of social integration.
B)oppose dominant ideas in society.
C)change over time and vary from one group to another.
D)are based on ultimate truths about this life and the next.
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Chapter 16: Sports in the Future: What Do We Want
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Q1) Power and performance sports emphasize that people reach their potential when they
A)achieve machine-like efficiency.
B)develop close relationships with other athletes.
C)reach a state of peak enjoyment.
D)use physical skills to connect with the physical environment.
Q2) When highly visible and popular athletes become involved in efforts to change something related to sports,they usually have goals that are
A)conservative.
B)reformist.
C)radical.
D)a combination of reformist and radical.
Q3) Pleasure and participation sports will become more popular in the future because A)the average age of the population is getting younger and younger.
B)more women are looking to men as models for how to do sports.
C)fewer people are looking for challenges in physical activities.
D)there are growing concerns about improving health and fitness.
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