Sports Studies
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Course Introduction
Sports Studies is an interdisciplinary field that examines the role and impact of sport in society, encompassing its historical, cultural, social, and scientific dimensions. This course explores topics such as the development of modern sports, ethical and legal issues, sports psychology, physiology, and management, as well as the influence of media and globalization on athletics. Students gain a broad understanding of how sports shape communities, identities, and economies, while also learning about the importance of fair play, inclusivity, and health in recreational and professional sports settings.
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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) When people in a society generally see the body as machine and sport as performance, it is likely that
A)they will focus on bodily pleasure and joy in sports.
B)athletes will use technology to control and manage their bodies.
C)there will be no need for drug testing in sports.
D)people will view their bodies as unchangeable and beautiful.
Answer: B
Q2) 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
Q3) The great sport myth is based on the belief that
A)people are genetically wired to play sports.
B)sports are more socially important than religion.
C)people prefer sports over religion as a source personal meaning.
D)sport is essentially pure and good.
Answer: D
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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) 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
Q2) 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
Q3) Feminism is less visible today than in previous decades because
A)gender is no longer influential in social life.
B)most people don't want gender equity in society.
C)younger scholars have rejected feminist goals.
D)many people take it for granted without identifying it by name.
Answer: D
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Chapter 3: Sports and Socialization: Who Plays and What Happens to Them
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Q1) 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
Q2) 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
Q3) Loic Wacquant's study of the social world of boxers in a Chicago gym indicated that boxing
A)enabled young men to learn violent strategies they could use on the streets.
B)sheltered young men from the destructive influences of the streets.
C)involved so much discipline that most young men dropped out.
D)became a major gang initiation ritual in the neighborhood around the gym.
Answer: B
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Chapter 4: Sports for Children: Are Organized Programs
Worth the Effort
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Q1) A negative consequences of the expectation that parents are responsible for the supervision of their children 24-hours a day, 7-days a week is that
A)too many new public parks have been built by communities.
B)adult supervision causes children to become rebellious.
C)parents without resources may be defined as irresponsible.
D)parents spend too much time in cars with their children.
Q2) The Youth Sports National Report Card described in the chapter has
A)had a major impact on privately organized youth sports programs.
B)forced parents and coaches to make significant changes in their behavior.
C)given parents a way to control the leagues in which their children participate.
D)had no significant impact on youth sports in the United States.
Q3) Research shows that the existence of informal children's games requires
A)that players have interpresonal skills and problem-solving abilities.
B)the existence of well-maintained play areas.
C)the availability of the proper equipment for every player.
D)that adults be available if they are needed to solve problems.
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Chapter 5: Deviance in Sports: Is It Out of Control
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Q1) When two college basketball players turn their back to the U.S.flag during the playing of the national anthem, they
A)violate an informal norm.
B)engage in formal deviance.
C)violate a formal norm.
D)offend people but violate no norms.
Q2) The model of a professional athlete's career shows that when athletes move from the amateur level to the professional level in a sport like cycling, they
A)focus exclusively on maintaining their overall health and well-being.
B)learn that overconformity to the norms of the sport ethic is deviant.
C)train so intensely that it causes physiological damage to their bodies.
D)avoid using technologies that their competitors don't use.
Q3) Data presented in the chapter indicate that felony rates among NFL players are
A)twice as high as they are for comparable men in the society as a whole.
B)lower than they are for comparable men in the society as a whole.
C)highest among players who make the minimum salary in the NFL.
D)so low that they should not be considered as a problem.
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Chapter 6: Violence in Sports: How Does It Affect Our Lives
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Q1) Research indicates that concussions as well as repetitive subconcussive head hits can cause brain injuries that may lead to CTE-chronic traumatic encephalopathy.CTE is a neurodegenerative disease with symptoms similar to A)diabetes.
B)a chronic flu.
C)many autoimmune diseases.
D)early onset dementia.
Q2) A study by Nancy Theberge found that elite women ice hockey players have a difficult time controlling all forms of brutal body contact in their sport because
A)their coaches demand that they use violence as a game strategy.
B)they love the physicality of ice hockey.
C)they often develop a strong hatred for their opponents.
D)their teammates expect them to use forms of quasi-criminal violence.
Q3) Research on pain and injury in sports suggests that
A)as violence increases in a sport, serious injuries among athletes decrease.
B)professional contact and collision sports are dangerous workplaces.
C)former athletes have fewer health problems than average people.
D)sports are safest when athletes overconform to the norms of the sport ethic.
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Chapter 7: Gender and Sports: Is Equity Possible
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Q1) Data on participation and gender indicate that in comparison with the Olympic Games, the Paralympic games
A)highlight women's events more than men's events.
B)have far fewer females athletes than male athletes.
C)exclude women from events involving strength.
D)have equal numbers of male and female athletes.
Q2) In the chapter it is noted that full gender equity depends on developing alternative definitions of masculinity and femininity combined with
A)changing the way many sports are organized and played.
B)altering sports so men and women can compete against each other.
C)increasing the number of women coaches in youth sports programs.
D)passing new laws that go beyond Title IX.
Q3) Research on alternative and action sports shows that
A)they have been shaped by Title IX law.
B)they are organized around the values and experiences of males.
C)women competitors receive more media coverage than male competitors.
D)girls and women who succeed do so by avoiding risky tricks.
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Chapter 8: Race and Ethnicity:
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Q1) When "whiteness" is used as the taken-for-granted standard against which everything else is viewed, the success of black athletes is
A)explained in terms of cultural factors by whites.
B)seen by whites as a "problem" in need of explanation.
C)seldom covered in the mainstream media.
D)defined by whites as a result of luck.
Q2) The classification systems that are popularly used to divide all human beings into specific and distinct racial categories are based on
A)social meanings given to certain biological traits.
B)objectively identifiable genetic differences between groups of people.
C)unchanging statistical differences between people in particular gene pools.
D)long-term patterns of intermarriage within groups of people.
Q3) The NCAA allowed Florida State University to keep their mascot Chief Osceola and his horse Seminole, because the university
A)funds political action to eliminate poverty among Native Americans.
B)bans the sale of any items containing the image of their chief.
C)has permission from a few tribal representatives to use their name and image.
D)donates profits from "Osceola products" to schools for Seminole children.
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Chapter 9: Social Class: Do Money and Power Matter in Sports
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Q1) After reading the chapter we could conclude that future occupational success and upward mobility would be highest among former elite athletes in A)golf.
B)track and field.
C)boxing.
D)rodeo.
Q2) When there are budget shortfalls, the high school sport programs most likely to be cut are in communities where there are
A)many private sport programs for young people.
B)problems with public mass transportation.
C)large corporations willing to fund community-based sports.
D)large proportions of low-income families.
Q3) 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.
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Chapter 10: Age and Ability: Barriers to Participation and Inclusion
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Q1) Through most of history
A)people have felt comfortable around others who have disabilities.
B)disabled people have had impairments, making them seriously abnormal.
C)people who are normal have accepted those with physical disabilities.
D)disability is tied to the ways that people give meaning to difference.
Q2) Popular images ignore disability or represent (dis)abled bodies as different.This creates for people with disabilities
A)the need to have an account for why their bodies are "different."
B)the illusion that their bodies do not need fixing.
C)a clear preference to play power and performance sports.
D)the freedom to organize their identities around their abilities and skills.
Q3) In the chapter it is noted that children with disabilities usually have two options if they wish to play sports.One is to find an organized adapted program and the other is to
A)disguise disabilities and play mainstream sports.
B)find a medical treatment that will fix their disability.
C)play informal games with peers who can make adaptations.
D)seek a sport in which physical abilities are not relevant to enjoyment.
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Chapter 11: Sports and the Economy: What Are the
Characteristics of Commercial Sports
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Q1) Team owners in the major men's sports are free-market capitalists who protect their power and wealth through
A)market regulations and socialist forms of organization.
B)cooperation with local, tax-supported high school sport programs.
C)illegal business practices.
D)collective agreements to reject monopoly forms of organization.
Q2) When changes in the legal status of athletes allow them to become "free agents," this means that the athletes may
A)sign a contract with the team that offers them the best deal.
B)unite with other athletes to force owners to increase salaries.
C)switch teams every season depending on who they want to play for.
D)hire an agent to represent them and negotiate a contract with a team.
Q3) When sports become commercialized, there are changes in the organizations that control them.These changes involve shifts in
A)who makes decisions and how decisions reflect the interests of athletes.
B)the leadership techniques used by those in management positions.
C)organizational accounting procedures and personnel policies.
D)the ways that referees are hired, fired, and assigned to events.
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Chapter 12: Sports and the Media: Could They Survive
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Q1) Sociologist Toni Bruce points out that media coverage of women's sports has traditionally
A)given regular attention to nonsport issues..
B)ignored the husbands and children of heterosexual female athletes.
C)focused disproportionately on homosexual athletes and their lifestyles.
D)ignored all aspects of female sexuality.
Q2) Research on media coverage of men's and women's sports has generally found that
A)coverage focuses on women's sports that involve speed and power.
B)the coverage of men's and women's sports is nearly equal today.
C)men's sport receive about 95% of all sports coverage in the media.
D)women's sports are covered as if they are more exciting than men's sports.
Q3) 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) When Germany hosted the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, Hitler used the Olympics Games to
A)discover and recruit officers for the German army.
B)promote the Nazi ideology of "Nordic supremacy."
C)test Jews and gentiles in competitive events.
D)isolate the German people from the rest of the world.
Q2) In the box, Olympism and the Olympic Games, the author explains that the Olympics is now designed primarily to
A)promote international peace and understanding.
B)help people understand and accept differences between cultures.
C)help people in the television audience visualize forms of global community.
D)promote the commercial interests of corporate sponsors.
Q3) 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.
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Chapter 14: Sports in High School and College: Do
Competitive Sports Contribute to Education
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Q1) The median revenues and expenditures for the universities in ech of the three Division I subdivisions shows that
A)the schools with the highest profile football teams show the largest deficits.
B)deficits are highest at the schools without football teams.
C)schools without football teams generate the highest revenues.
D)schools with the highest profile teams have the lowest revenues.
Q2) Title IX law remains controversial in intercollegiate sports because
A)it exposes the contradictions of big-time intercollegiate football.
B)it is unconstitutional to make men share budgets and resources for sports.
C)women never wanted or needed Title IX to become great athletes.
D)all women's sport teams are financially supported by football profits.
Q3) Data on college sports indicate that
A)over half of all college athletes play in the largest NCAA universities.
B)junior colleges have over half of all college sport programs.
C)sport teams covered in mainstream media are typical of all college sports.
D)NCAA Division III has more athletes than any other NCAA division
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Chapter 15: Sports and Religions: Is
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Q1) Religion is related to gender issues in sports because
A)religious leaders tend to be strong supporters of sports for women.
B)women are more religious than men.
C)religious beliefs often influence opportunities for females to play sports.
D)religious women are more likely to play sports than other women.
Q2) The rapid global diffusion of work-related achievement values has
A)intensified the connection between sports and all world religions.
B)muted the influence of religious beliefs on athletic success.
C)boosted the influence of Protestantism on athletic success.
D)led athletes to seek new religions that will guide them in sports.
Q3) In the section on sports and world religions, it is noted that
A)Buddhist athletes hold more world records than Christian athletes.
B)Hindus use sports to achieve community and family goals.
C)few female athletes come from traditionally Islamic countries.
D)all religions are connected with sports in similar ways.
Q4) The combination of sports and Christianity has usually led to
A)a reaffirmation of the the status quo in mainstream sports.
B)revolutionary changes in athletes' behaviors.
C)dramatic decreases in competitive spirit among athletes and coaches.
D)a significant increase in injury rates among athletes.
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