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SPMT 319 EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERSWhat is sport? - answers- 1. Sport is physical.
2. Sport involves two people
3. Sport involves competition
4. Sport has rules of competition
What is physical activity? - answers- any body movement produced by skeletal
muscles.
What is exercise? - answers- a form of leisure physical activity.
In 2011, according to nielson company, what was the most watched broadcast in us
history - answers- super bowl
What does the internet do with sport - answers- official team information
Player profiles
Education
College recruiting
Fantasy sports
How much do people spend on domestic sport product? - answers- 168.5 to 207 billion
Sociology - answers- 1. An academic discipline aimed at scientifically studying
phenomena
2. 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.
Assumptions that sociologists have towards the world - answers- 1. 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 and challenge the social contexts in which they
are situated.
The sociology of sport is concerned with the - answers- deeper meanings and stories
associated with sports in society.
Sociology is - answers- the study of the social worlds that people create, maintain, and
change through their relationships with each other.
Sociologists are concerned with the actions and interactions of people in - answers-
particular social contexts.
Social world is an - answers- identifiable sphere of everyday actions and relationships.
,Sociology provides useful - answers- concepts theories and research methods.
Culture - answers- the shared ways of life and shared understandings that people
develop as they live together.
Social interaction - answers- people taking each other into account and, in the process,
influencing each other's feelings, thoughts, and actions.
Social structure - answers- the established patterns of relationships and social
arrangements that take shape as people live, work, and play with each other.
Sports - answers- well established, officially governed competitive physical activities in
which participants are motivated by internal and external rewards.
Sports are a blend of - answers- play and spectacle.
Play is an - answers- expressive activity done for its own sake ( and it results in internal
rewards).
A dramatic spectacle is - answers- a performance meant to entertain an audience (for
the sake of obtaining external rewards).
Sports contain elements of - answers- play and dramatic spectacle, and athletes are
motivated by internal and external rewards.
Current research in the sociology of sport focuses on - answers- physical culture which
includes all forms of movement and physical activities that people in social worlds
create, maintain, and regularly include in their collective lives.
Physical culture includes - answers- all forms of movement and physical activities that
people in social worlds create, maintain, and regularly include in their collective lives.
Sports as parts of society are - answers- social constructions.
Social constructions that are - answers- given form and meaning by people as they
interact with each other under the social, political, and economic conditions that exist in
their society.
Social constructions are - answers- parts of the social world that are created by people
as they interact with one another under particular social, political, and economic
conditions.
Sports can take different forms and be given different meanings from - answers- one
situation, culture, or point in time to the next.
, Sports are not static activities, they are - answers- changed as people and
circumstances change.
Viewing sports as social constructions may cause some people to be defensive
because - answers- they resist the idea that we can or ever should change sports.
Sports are - answers- contested activities.
Sports are contested activities which means that there are struggles over the -
answers- meaning, purpose, and organization of sports. The people allowed to play
sports and the conditions they play under, the people and organizations that sponsor
and provide the resources needed to play sports.
Sociology of sport is a - answers- sub discipline of sociology that studies sports as part
of social and cultural life, that is, as social phenomena.
Sociology of sport focuses primarily on - answers- organized competitive sports.
Sociology of sports asks critical questions about - answers- sports in society.
Those who benefit from the status quo are usually - answers- threatened by such
findings and may try to discredit or ignore them.
Sports are a - answers- social phenomena.
Sports are related to the social and cultural contexts - answers- in which we live.
Sports provide stories and images used to - answers- explain and evaluate these
contexts.
Sports provide a window into - answers- culture and society.
Sports are socially significant activities for - answers- many people.
Sports reaffirm important ideas and beliefs including - answers- ideologies.
Sports are integrated into - answers- major spheres of social life.
Ideologies are - answers- interrelated ideas and beliefs that people in a particular
culture use to give meaning to and make sense of what occurs in their social worlds.
As people use and promote their ideologies, sports become relevant because -
answers- they can be organized to reinforce or challenge important ideas and beliefs.
Ideology - answers- a shared interpretive framework that people use to make sense of
and evaluate themselves, others, and events in their social worlds.
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