Sport Ethics and Contemporary Issues
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Course Introduction
Sport Ethics and Contemporary Issues examines the moral principles and ethical challenges that arise within the world of sports. The course explores key topics such as fairness, integrity, sportsmanship, doping, gender equity, inclusivity, and the influence of commercialization. Students will critically analyze real-life case studies and current debates, considering the impact of cultural, social, and legal factors on decision-making in sport. By fostering ethical reasoning and reflective thinking, the course prepares students to navigate and address complex ethical dilemmas facing athletes, coaches, administrators, and fans in contemporary sport environments.
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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) Social structure consists of
A)ways of life that people learn as they become adults.
B)established patterns of relationships and social arrangements.
C)organizational processes developed by unrelated work groups.
D)rules developed by individuals working on schedules.
Answer: B
Q2) According to the author,one of the problems with a single definition of sport is that it might lead some sociologists to
A)ignore people who lack the resources to formally organize their games.
B)ask too many critical questions and destroy the enjoyment of sports.
C)focus too much attention on the games of people in low income groups.
D)ignore the political importance of sports in society.
Answer: A
Q3) The author explains that we should study sports as parts of the social world because sports are
A)closely connected with important ideas and meanings in social life.
B)the only activities that keep people fit and healthy.
C)truly democratic activities unrelated to social class and social inequality.
D)too often ignored by mainstream media around the world.
Answer: A
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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) 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
Q2) Knowledge and theories in the sociology of sport enable us to
A)discover ultimate truths about the role of spots in society.
B)view sports from multiple perspectives.
C)predict how athletes and teams will perform under pressure.
D)eliminate the causes of serious injuries in sports.
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) When Peter Donnelly and Kevin Young used data from interviews with rock climbers and rugby players they concluded that becoming an athlete involved
A)acquiring knowledge and developing an identity as an athlete.
B)gaining sponsorships from a corporation with power and influence.
C)being recognized as a person with a desire to play a sport.
D)taking risks in a sport so that physical skills are seen by other athletes.
Answer: A
Q2) When Patti and Peter Adler studied a big-time intercollegiate men's basketball team,they discovered that team members gradually
A)experienced a form of burnout that ended most of their careers.
B)became so engulfed in their course work that they ignored their social lives.
C)developed a strong dislike of their coaches and fellow team members.
D)viewed the world almost exclusively in terms of their identities as athletes.
Answer: D
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Chapter 4: Sports for Children: Are Organized Programs
Worth the Effort
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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) 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) Organized youth sports in the United States were originally developed to teach lower-class boys how to work together peacefully and to help middle-class boys
A)counteract the "feminized" values they learned at home from their mothers.
B)become less competitive in their relationships with each other.
C)accept the fact that they would not be as successful as their fathers.
D)learn homemaking skills that they could use after they were married.
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Chapter 5: Deviance in Sports: Is It Out of Control
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Q1) Historical data suggests that most substance use and abuse among athletes is due to
A)overconformity to the sport ethic among athletes.
B)a lack of dedication among athletes.
C)defective socialization among athletes.
D)a lack of moral character among athletes.
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) The author describes a model of a professional athlete's career to show that
A)cyclists use drugs in order to do their jobs successfully.
B)medical support staff are trained to discourage drug use by athletes.
C)very few professional cyclists use performance enhancing substances.
D)cyclists at all levels of competition feel a need to use drugs when they race.
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Chapter 6: Violence in Sports: Does It Affect Our Lives
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Q1) It is difficult to say that playing violent sports causes people to be violent off the field because
A)violent sports may attract people who already have records of being violent.
B)researchers cannot agree on a definition of violence.
C)athletes won't talk about their experiences on the field.
D)athletes generally look for trouble when they are off the field.
Q2) Research has shown that spectators are most likely to be violent when they interpret the actions of the players on the field to be A)violent.
B)emotionally intense.
C)uncontrolled.
D)product-oriented.
Q3) Sport participation may help people learn to control aggressive action in their lives.This has occurred in connection with some combat sports when the A)people are committed to competitive success in their sport.
B)coaches teach athletes how to effectively use their bodies as weapons.
C)athletes in a sport come from mixed social class and racial backgrounds.
D)coaches promote norms emphasizing non-violence and respect for self and others.
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Chapter 7: Gender and Sports: Is Equity Possible
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Q1) The primary reason that there are fewer female athletes than male athletes at the summer Olympic Game is because
A)there are fewer women's events in the summer games.
B)television spectators refuse to watch women's events,apart from gymnastics.
C)the women's swimming teams have fewer athletes than the men's teams.
D)there are no team port events for women.
Q2) 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.
Q3) Which of the following characterizes the state of gender equity in U.S.high schools and colleges?
A)High schools have achieved equity but colleges have not.
B)Colleges have achieved equity but high schools have not.
C)Neither high schools nor colleges have achieved equity.
D)Both high schools and colleges have achieved equity.
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Chapter 8: Race and Ethnicity:
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Q1) When people use continuous traits as a basis for identifying races,
A)it is clear that there are three major races.
B)there is no limit on the number of races that can be identified.
C)they assume that there are racial differences in athletic potential.
D)they base their racial classifications on scientific evidence.
Q2) When black women were in ads for the WNBA,the marketing people were so sensitive to issues of race that they presented the women in roles where they
A)were clearly nurturing and supportive.
B)were physical and tough.
C)expressed confidence in their skills on the court.
D)used their college degrees to be successful off the court.
Q3) Sports are described in this chapter as "sites" where
A)people from all backgrounds are automatically treated as equals.
B)skin color is erased as a relevant characteristic.
C)meanings associated with skin color are always grounded in racism.
D)ideas about skin color and ethnicity are formed,reaffirmed,and put into action.
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Chapter 9: Social Class: Do Money and Power Matter in Sports
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Q1) Research on sport participation and social class tends to show that
A)low-income people tend to play sports more than they watch them.
B)low-income people cannot afford to play or watch any sports.
C)higher-income people have high rates of attendance at most sport events.
D)participation in sports is highest among those who work in physical jobs.
Q2) In the example of how age relations operate in sports,it was explained that the organization of youth sport programs generally reflects
A)adults' ideas about what children should be doing and learning.
B)the needs of children who seek exciting physical challenges.
C)the needs of elite sport programs in the nation.
D)managerial approaches used by adults in major corporations.
Q3) Social class relations are related to sports and sport participation because
A)all sports depend on the support of the middle class.
B)athletes tend to come from impoverished backgrounds.
C)literacy is required to understand written rules.
D)organized sports depend on material resources.
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Chapter 10: Age and Ability: Barriers to Participation and Inclusion
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Q1) According to the Americans with Disability Act,all youth sports open to the public must allow children with disabilities to play unless
A)it would threaten the safety of able-bodied participants.
B)it leads to even minor changes in the procedures used by a league or team.
C)the parents of other children object.
D)it would cause some players to focus on helping children with disabilities.
Q2) 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.
Q3) Research as well as the observations of disability rights activists indicate that the Paralympics
A)improves access to sports for people with a disability.
B)eliminates negative attitudes towards people with a disability.
C)creates widespread interest in becoming Paralympic coaches.
D)often reaffirms ableist ideology and ableist attitudes.
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Chapter 11: Sports and the Economy: What Are the
Characteristics of Commercial Sports
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Q1) In the box,Extreme Heroic Action,it is noted that someone using cultural theories would hypothesize that professional wrestling is popular because it
A)glorifies the use of drugs.
B)casts women in roles that highlight their moral integrity.
C)reaffirms the ideologies that people use to make sense of their lives.
D)addresses the angst associated with community breakdown.
Q2) The large annual increases in the salaries of major league baseball players after the 1976 season were due in large part to
A)increases in the popularity of baseball outside North America.
B)a change in the legal status of players.
C)a switch from family ownership of teams to corporate ownership of teams.
D)the development of cable television coverage.
Q3) When sport leagues and team owner become monopsonies it means that they are
A)governed by anti-trust laws to an extreme degree.
B)the major supporter of art museums in a city.
C)create new forms of capital in a city.
D)the only buyer of athlete labor.
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Chapter 12: Sports and the Media: Could They Survive
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Q1) It you regularly watch women's sports on network TV,the sport you see most often is A)swimming.
B)tennis.
C)softball.
D)basketball.
Q2) Which of the following is NOT a reason that global corporations have become more involved as sponsors of sports?
A)Sport events attract audiences full of potential consumers of products.
B)Sport images and athletes can be used to market products worldwide.
C)Sports are covered in a way that makes people more active as citizens.
D)Sport images can be used to promote a way of life based on consumption.
Q3) Compared to past coverage,current media representations of race and ethnicity
A)present fewer narratives that reproduce racist stereotypes.
B)present fewer images of the lifestyles of successful black male athletes.
C)avoid any images of black male athletes as angry and fearsome.
D)ignore the records and achievements of black athletes.
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Chapter 13: Sports and Politics: How Do Governments and Global
Political Processes Influence Sports
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Q1) The main point of the chapter is that
A)sports and politics cannot be kept separate.
B)sports and politics must be kept separate.
C)international sports should be abolished because of politics.
D)politics in sports have decreased in recent years.
Q2) In the box,Olympism and the Olympic Games,it is noted that the current method of selling media broadcasting rights to the Olympic Games
A)subverts Olympic ideals.
B)promotes Olympism.
C)benefits small nations.
D)decreases coverage seen by Americans.
Q3) Nationalistic themes in media coverage of international sports are now accompanied and sometimes obscured by images and narratives that promote
A)social justice and human rights.
B)political differences between nations.
C)corporate interests and products.
D)the patriotism of athletes and coaches.
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Chapter 14: Sports in High School and College: Do
Competitive Sports Contribute to Education
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Q1) Because budgeted operational expenses are not enough to maintain most high school sport programs.Money is raised in three additional ways.Which of the following is NOT one of those ways?
A)Forming supportive booster clubs.
B)Seeking corporate sponsorships.
C)Establishing sport participation fees.
D)Paying athletes to clean and maintain sport facilities.
Q2) Richard Southall and his colleagues at the College Sport Research Center have developed an adjusted graduation gap measure that compares athletes with other full-time students.Their findings indicate that athletes
A)seldom graduate in four years.
B)graduate at the same rate as other full time students but have different majors.
C)consistently graduate at lower rates than other full-time students.
D)are not as interested in graduating as are other full time students.
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Chapter 15: Sports and Religions: Is
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Q1) Muslim women in sports are active subjects who introduce new ideas about what it means to be a Muslim woman.At the same time,these women
A)are role models who lead younger women to abandon their religious beliefs.
B)create conflicts that increase the problems that other women experience.
C)are objects used by people as they debate issues of morality and change.
D)undermine progressive changes in all nations worldwide.
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 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 Them to
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Q1) Some participants in alternative sports resist attempts to make their sports more like mainstream power and performance sports because they don't want to A)see competition replace creativity and support for other participants.
B)have older people to develop interests in their sports.
C)make changes in their equipment or the tricks they do.
D)have their friends watch them while they display their skills.
Q2) The Gay Games are an example of
A)an extreme form of power and performance sports.
B)people seeking an alternative to dominant sport forms.
C)people who want to avoid competition in their sports.
D)sports being used to support dominant ideas about sexuality.
Q3) The sponsorship of power and performance sports is generally motivated by the idea that it is important to be associated with A)masses of people participating in sports.
B)athletes and teams who are currently winners.
C)athletes who do community service.
D)groups of spectators known for their enthusiastic support.
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