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Sport and Gender
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Women's & Gender Studies
Undergraduate 3
09/04/2007

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Sport is:
Definition
1 Institutionalized
2 Competitive
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Institutionalized
Definition
Standard set of rules, rule enforcement, rationalized concerned with efficiency, formalized learning, concerns with statistics, experts journals, magazines...l.
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Competitive
Definition
Contest between 2 or more people or groups. Goals/rewards are mutual
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Sport
Definition
Set rules and guidelines that are officiated. Time limit and time constraints of the players Standard set of rules, rule enforcement, rationalized concerned with efficiency, formalized learning, concerns with statistics, experts journals, magazines...l.Contest between 2 or more people or groups. Goals/rewards are mutual. Physical skill determines the outcome extrinsic
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Athletics
Definition
More extrinsic concern on physical and time
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Play
Definition
Participants can change the rules, participants set the rules, rules are flexible time constraints are loose, not a real winner Intrinsic
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Game
Definition
Sports are a game, but not all games are sports. Dependent on physical
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Display
Definition
Looks like a sprt but done for entertainment ie...Professional Wrestling
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Masculinity
Definition
Socially agreed upon characteristics that describe a man. Assertive protective controlled emotion independent
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Femininity
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Socialy agreed upon charecteristics used to decribe a woman. Beauty nurturing, emotional dainty submissive
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Feminism
Definition
equality for all women. Not pursing female superiority women have a right to be masculine historic inequality and the desire to change it
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