Super Bowl - Answers- - 20 million Americans attend parties
- parties are planned over 1 month in advance
- average of 17 people attend each gathering
- 40% of people are not fans at all
- spend 10 million hours preparing food for the big game
sport is: - Answers- institutionalized competitive activity involving two or more
opponents and stressing physical exertion by serious competitors who represent or are
part of formally organized associations
sport is: - Answers- competitive activity involving at least two competitors, requiring
physical skill, following formal rules, and occurring within a formal organizational
framework
sport represents: - Answers- well-established, officially governed competitive physical
activities in which participants are motivated by internal and external rewards
sport: - Answers- - physical in nature
- involves at least 2 people
- involves competition
- bound by formal rules of competition
levels of sport: - Answers- 1. informal- growing up as children; play catch
2. organized- presence of rudimentary organization; softball league, little league
3. corporate- elements of informal and organized sports, economics & politics; olympics,
NCAA, pro sport
physical activity: - Answers- any body movement produced by skeletal muscles and
resulting in a substantial increase over the resting energy expenditure
exercise - Answers- form of leisure physical activity(as opposed to occupational or
household physical activity) that is undertaken in order to achieve a particular
objective(improved appearance, improved cardiovascular fitness, reduced stress, fun)
fantasy sport users - Answers- - over 20 million users
USA Today - Answers- - largest circulation in America
- reserves a quarter of the news coverage to sport and physical activity
gross domestic sport product - Answers- - $168.5 to 207.5 billion
economic activity - Answers- most of this comes from physical activity and exercise
endeavors, also known as "participant sport"
, sociology - Answers- - scientific discipline that describes and explains human social
organization
- study of social worlds that people create, organize, maintain, and change through their
relationships with one another
- analysis of the structure of social relationships as constituted by social interaction
Sociology is: - Answers- 1. academic discipline aimed at scientifically studying
phenomena
2. sociologists examine people and the institutions these people create
3. researchers adopting a sociological lens primarily study social issues and the manner
in which people engage and interact with one another
sociologists: - Answers- 1. view people as social beings by their very nature
2. maintain that people are largely socially determined, as they are products of their
social environment
3. suggest that people create, shape & challenge the social contexts in which they are
situated
sociology of sport and physical activity - Answers- - subsection of sociology that studies
sport and physical activity as social phenomena
- social constructions or parts of the social world that are created by people as they
interact with one another under particular social, political, and economic conditions
sport can be seen as: - Answers- - microcosm of society
- sport is a window into or a mirror which reflects the underlying values, beliefs and
assumptions of a cultural group
values - Answers- - criteria that people use to select and justify action and to evaluate
people and events
- beliefs that transcend specific situations
- pertain to desirable ed states or behaviors
- guide selection or evaluation of behavior or events
- vary in terms of relative importance
- they are what we deem to be worthwhile, interesting, excellent, desirable & important
attack upon sport - Answers- seen as an attack upon society itself
predominant American values - Answers- - success
- competition
- valued means to achieve
- progress
- materialism
- external conformity
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