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The ability to connect the biographies of individuals with
larger social and cultural forces |
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Situation wherein individual groups do not have
equal social statu |
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• The ability to influence others
• The ability to realize one’s will over another even in the face
of resistance
• A relationship, not a commodity (something one owns or
possesses)
• Dynamic |
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webs of ideas and beliefs that people use
to give meaning to the world and make sense of
their experiences. Key: It is not always visible—as it
becomes understood and accepted as “common
sense.” (CULTURE) |
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Built into formal policies and
procedures (STRUCTURE) |
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• Approaches research via an attempt to weigh the
impact of various identity categories
• Gender
• Gender + Race
• Gender + Race + Class |
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Approaches research with belief that individuals are
affected separately by their gender, their race, their
ethnicity or their class.
• Gender or
• Race or
• Class |
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• Intersectionality looks at how diversity and various
systems of inequality intersect and interact to shape
individual identities and opportunities.
Intersectionality requires that we consider all
categories of diversity with respect to one’s identity. |
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| System of a country or place that oversees the *production, *distribution, and *consumption of goods and services |
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Economic system that allows for private ownership of the means of production .
Persistent tension exists:
• Owners want to maximize profits
• Workers want satisfying lives |
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a group of seemingly independent firms
which behave as a collective monopol |
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| Conditions for growth of Commercial sports to grow |
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• 1. Market economies
• 2. Exist in societies with large, densely populated
cities. (potential spectators)
• 3. Prosper in places where standard of living is high.
• 4. Large amounts of capital (money or credit) to
build stadiums and arenas.
• 5. Lifestyle must emphasize consumption and
material status |
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| Mediasport and Sportainment |
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divide between sport and media or sport and
entertainment is virtually nonexistent
(We want to understand mediasport products and
how they are produced, distributed and consumed.) |
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| FOUR BASIC COMPONENTS OF A MEDIA REPRESENTATION |
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1. The message
• Producers encode message
• Consumers decode message
• Open to multiple meanings
2. The audience
3. The medium
4. Aesthetic Qualit |
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The ability to access, analyse, evaluate and create
media representations in a variety of forms |
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strategy by which growth occurs through
the acquisition of other entities in the
channel of distribution |
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GOVERNMENTS ARE INVOLVED IN
SPORTS |
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• To safeguard the public order.
• To ensure fairness and protect human rights.
• To maintain health and fitness among citizens. |
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| The process of social interaction through which people acquire a personality and learn the way of life (culture) of their society. Family, school, religion, toys, sports, media and language provide opportunities for people to learn about their society |
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| Sport Socialization research |
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1. How people become involved in sport and why
2. Why people change or end their participation in sport.
3. The impact (positive and negative) of being involved in sport. |
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| Sport Participation is related to three factors |
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1. A person’s abilities, characteristics, and resources
2. The influence of significant others,
3. The availability of opportunities to play sports |
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| Emphasizes hierarchical leadership, exclusive participation, and the use of strength, speed, and power to push human limits and dominate opponents in a quest for success |
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| Pleasure and Participation |
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| Emphasizes active participation, a spirit of personal expression, inclusive process, democratic decision making, and a focus on participating and competing with others who are seen as partners, not competitors. |
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| refers to a way of life and an associated mind-set that revolve around a particular activity and encompass all the people and relationships connected with it |
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| Sport as contested activity |
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| Sport means differnt things to differnt people. No universal meaning |
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Structual: What is availible? (economy)
Cultural: Location, Nationality, Race, Family |
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A story that describes a series of fictional or non-fictional events
The stories that people tell about themselves and their social worlds |
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| Stories that provide an alternative and challenge to a commonly accepted narrative/story. |
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movement away from particular activities and its accompanying values, people, social world.
-In sports, this can be planned (retirement) or unplanned (burnout, injury). |
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| a web of ideas and beliefs that people use to understand economic inequalities, identify their class position, and evaluate the impact of economic inequalities on the organizations of social worlds |
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Sport as a place for (upward) class mobility
Example: sport is tied to education |
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| a hopeful vision of boundless opportunities for individuals to succeed economically and live a happy life based on consumption |
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| a society in which rewards go to people who deserve them due to their abilities and qualifications |
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| Bioligical parts determaning male or female |
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| Psychological, social and cultural aspects of individuals. What it means to be masculine, feminine or androgynous in terms of role performance, personality structure, attitudes and behaviors. Achieved status. |
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| The way in which people express themselves sexually. This can be related to fantasies, desires, attractions, experiences or behaviors. Sexuality can also refer to the way in which on self-identifies with available categories (i.e., lesbian, gay, queer, bisexual, heterosexual, etc.). |
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Trivialized
Sexualized
Portrayed as Tragic
Absent |
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for a variety of conditions in which a person is born with a reproductive or sexual anatomy that doesn’t seem to fit the ‘typical’ definitions of female or male
(acts like both male and female) |
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a wide range of identities and experiences relating to individuals whose gender expression and/or identity differs from ‘conventional’ expectations tied to the physical sex they were determined to be at birth
(acting like oposite sex, transvestite)
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| beliefs and practices aimed at creating unified but unique communities within a sovereign territory |
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Invented Tradtions
(Hockey in Canada)
(Will always be white and masculine) |
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