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| What is the Sociological Imagination and who came up with it? |
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| The sociological imagination is a sociological term from C.W. Mills in where we connect our personal experience to society at large, making the "familar to be strange" |
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| Who are the big 3 of sociology |
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| The Big 3 are Emile Durkhiem, Karl Marx, and Max Weber. |
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| How can Marxist and Weberian Theories be used in the society of sport |
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Definition
| Marx is big on social inequlity which can be used for income inequalities, managerial position inequality..ect. Weber looks at the individual which can be applied to looking through the athletes eyes on the spectrum of sports |
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| Social structure is the patterns of relationship and social arrangement that take shape as people live with one another |
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| What is culture? And what are some characteristics of sports culture |
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Definition
| Culture is the shared way of life and understandings that people develop as they live together. Some chacteristics are social interaction, organized, competitive, physical, forms of play but these change as circumstances change |
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| Sports as a social construction |
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| Created by people, can take on different forms and meanings when changing from one thing to the next. Static |
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| What does it mean sports are contested activities |
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Definition
| Contested over how they are governed |
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| Types of ideologies and their usage |
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| Webs of ideas of beliefs that people use to give meaning to the world and their experences. Race, Gender, Class. Can be used to sports to understand why people do and do not play certain sports |
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| Different Types of theories in sociology |
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Definition
| Functionalist, Conflict, Symbolic interactionism, and mid range |
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What is the functionalist theory |
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| Explanatory framework that focuses on the ways that social structures influence action and relationship in social worlds. |
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| What is the conflict theory |
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Definition
| Focuses on the structural connection between sports and the dynamics of power and privilege in society. (conflict drives change in society) |
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| What is the symbolic interactionist theory |
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Definition
| systematically and logically organized analytical frameworks that sociologists use to explain what we know about the origins, dynamics, and consequences of social interaction among people in particular social worlds. |
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| What is the Mid-Range Theory |
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| Used to predict how social institution will function. Also focuses on stability of organizations. |
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