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FREE AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT SOCIOLOGY IN SPORTS
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Question 1: Increase action and
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personal involvement
Question 2: Make play spaces more safe and accessible to as many
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children as possible
Question 3: Ableist ideology
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interrelated ideas and beliefs that are widely used to identify people as physically or intellectually disabled, to justify treating them as inferior, and to organize social worlds and physical spaces without taking them into account.
Question 4: Positive socialization effects are most likely when
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playing sports expands or diversifies a person's identities, relationships, and experiences.
Question 5: Play is an
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expressive activity done for its own sake ( and it results in internal rewards).Question 6: Wheeler's findings on family culture and youth sport participation in the UK found that
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children who defined sports as important in their lives came from families in which sports were well integrated into family relationships and seen as normal part of everyday life. Parents did not coach or critique.
Question 7: Gender
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a social element woven into the fabric of social worlds as meaning, performance, and organization.Question 8: Constructionist approach is based on four assumptions that norms are socially constructed as people interact with each other and determine what's acceptable and what isn't, that deviance is
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socially constructed as people negotiate the boundaries of their acceptance. That power dynamics influence this negotiation, that most ideas, traits, and actions all into a normally accepted range.
Question 9: Dan Rooney
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owner of the pittsburgh steelers and former head of NFL's diversity committee who originated the "Rooney rule" which requires NFL teams with openings for head coach interview at least one minority candidate.Question 10: Adler's findings on role engulfment among college basketball players found that some athletes in high profile sports experience role engulfment that
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deeply affects their identities and how they make decisions about their academic, athletic, and social lives. Separates them from relationships and experiences they require if they are to learn lessons from their sport experiences.
Question 11: Private-interest, nonprofit sport organizations include
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Little league baseball, pop warner football.
Question 12: Adrian Peterson
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Minnesota Vikings, child abuse Question 13: Informal sports, such as pick up games have declined to the point of
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near extinction.
Question 14: Messner and his colleagues used quantitative data when
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he analyzed network sports news and ESPN highlights.Question 15: Past research indicates that people don't drop out forever or cut all ties with sports, they often move into other sport roles. Dropping out is tied to other
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changes and transitions in a person's life. Dropping out isn't always due to negative experiences.Dropping out may cause problems among those who have identities grounded totally in sports, lack social and material resources.
Question 16: Social world
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refers to a way of life and an associated mindset that revolves around a particular sport and the people associated with it.
Question 17: Theories guide us as we study and participate in
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social worlds.
Question 18: Mike Tomlin
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current head coach of pittsburgh steelers, hired as a direct result of the Rooney rule.
Question 19: Sports are contested activities which means that there are struggles over the
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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.
Question 20: Institutional corruption
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established, widespread and taken for granted processes and practices that, if publicly known, would be seen as immoral, unethical, or illegal to the point of destroying public trust in its leaders.Question 21: Sports can take different forms and be given different meanings from
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one situation, culture, or point in time to the next.
Question 22: The sociology of sport is concerned with the
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deeper meanings and stories associated with sports in society.
Question 23: Coakley conclusion
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substance use is not caused by defective socialization or a lack of moral character among athletes.
Question 24: Personal theories are
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summaries of our ideas and explanations of social life and the contexts in which it occurs.
Question 25: Sociology of sport focuses primarily on
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organized competitive sports.
Question 26: Ray Rice
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running back, Baltimore Ravens, beat wife.