Sports Administration Exam 1 Questions and
Answers 100% Correct
How many academic programs in sport management/ administration have been
established since 1990? - ANSWER✅ Over 250
Do only sport management/ administration majors want to work in the sports
industry? - ANSWER✅ no
What is a SWOT analysis? - ANSWER✅ Strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and
threats
What is metadiscrete experiential learning? - ANSWER✅ Professors should
explain theory and practice. On site supervisors of internships should understand
integration of theory and practice.
What is at the center of the interlocking components of sport management
decision making? - ANSWER✅ Strategic Management
Which former SAA Conference member once competed at the highest level of
college athletics and had the very first Heisman Trophy winner? - ANSWER✅ Jay
Berwanger
Which school did the authors mention that recently went against the grain and
moved from NCAA Division 1 to Division 3? - ANSWER✅ Birmingham Southern
College
, What is jock capitalism? - ANSWER✅ The cultural hegemony of corporatized,
commercial sport.
Define cultural hegemony. - ANSWER✅ Dominance of one social, political, or
economic group over a culturally diverse society, or another group within society.
What is functionalist theory/ functionalism? - ANSWER✅ A sociological theory in
which society is viewed as an organized system of interrelated parts held together
by shared values and social processes that minimize differences and promote
consensus among people.
Define conflict theory. - ANSWER✅ A sociological theory emphasizing social and
political inequalities and the resulting economic power differentials
Define critical theory. - ANSWER✅ 1. Focuses on the consequences of
socioeconomic class disparities. 2. States that capitalism promotes and protects
interests of the capitalist hegemon (conflict perspective)
Define organizational culture. - ANSWER✅ Patter of basic assumptions that a
given group has invented, discovered, or developed in learning to cope with its
problems of external adaptation and internal integration, and the have worked
well enough to be considered valid and therefore, to be taught to new members
as the correct way to perceive, think, and feel in relation to those problems.
Define institutional logic. - ANSWER✅ A set of material practices and symbolic
construction, which constitutes an institutions's organization principles.
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