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31 Cards in this Set
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What are some "play" characteristics?
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-Freely choose to participate
-Spontaneous (no time and space_ -Uncertain outcome (no win or lose) -Unproductive -Make Believe |
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What are some "game" characteristics?
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-Goals outside of game itself (prestige, win)
-there is structure and rules -games are competitive |
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What are some "sport" characteristics?
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-All the characteristics of game (goals, structure and rules, and sport are competitive)
-phyisical exertion (chess vs football) -sport falls between work and play |
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What are the three types of sport?
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Informal, formal, and corporate
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What are the 5 basic social institutions?
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Famliy
Education Polity Economics Religion and Sport |
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Eufunctions of sport?
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-builds character
-teaches discipline -develops competitiveness -improves physical fitness develop mental fitness |
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Dysfunctions of sport?
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Excessive violence
Cheating Gambling Ruthless competition |
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What are the 5 Social Functions of Sport?
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1) Socio-emotional (carthartic, release of frustration; sense of belonging;ritualistic)
2) Integrative (brings isolated group together with a common persepective; ingroup/outgroup) 3) Political (international level; sport as a tool to demonstrate power; government propoganda; nationalism) 4)Mobility (pipeline out of ghetto) 5) Socialization (how people are a part of society) |
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What are the agents of socialization?
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Family
Peers School Community Mass Media |
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What is the historical function of sport? (Why is it the 6th institution)?
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To socialize young men to assume their role in society
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What are the traditional male roles?
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Provide
Protect Procreate |
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According to the Conflict Theory what two things are omnipresent?
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Social change and social conflict
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Hock states that scarcity (only one winner) leads to...
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Elitism
Racism Sexism Nationalism |
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Egalitarian sport cannot exist in a ...
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economic competitive atmosphere
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How is sport and religion similar?
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-like a drug; euphoric
-hope for a better life -diversion -temporary fix for harsh realities of everyday life |
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How does sport inhibit revolution
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-validates "myth" of capitalism (if you don't succeed you didn't work hard enough
-false hopes for social mobility |
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What are some social values derived from British Sport?
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Respect for authority
-Hard Work -Delayed Gratification -Sense of fair play -class superiority |
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Why did the new world break away from Catholic tradition?
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It was corrupt and stratified
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What were the two biggest differences between the Puritan Philosophy and the Catholic Philosophy?
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The Puritan philosophy was democratic (personal link to God) and Capitalistic (everyone free to succeed)
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What is the predestination?
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God determined who was saved and who was not;
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What are some Puritan Ethos?
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Self-reliance;
Endurance; Determination; Certainty; |
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Who were the two biggest influences on sport?
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British;
Puritans |
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When was the Golden Age of USA Sport? What happened during the period?
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post WWI; 1919-1930;
Automobiles; Newspapers Women's recognition African Americans |
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What are the 3 major social processes?
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Industrialization
Urbanization Mass Communication |
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What is the definition of culture
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Changing patterns of learned behavior and products that are shared by and transmitted among members of society.
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What are the two types of Culture?
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Material (Buildings)
Non-Material (Values, Attitudes, Norms, Beliefs) |
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How are values determined?
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Through culture
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7 values in American Sports (Harry Edwards)
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1) Character Building
2) Discipline 3) Competition 4) Physical Fitness 5) Mental Fitness 6) Religiosity 7) Nationalism 8) Win |
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What are the dominant Values of American?
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1) Success
2) Competition 3) Valued means to Achieve 4) Progress 5) Materialism 6) External Conformity |
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Frank Merriwell?
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Fiction baseball player
created by Gilbert Patton |
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Who was ted williams?
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Baseball player marine fighter pilot
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