HKIN 161
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- francophone and anglophone relations
- language issue debate, only 10% of francophones were on the 1976 Olympic team
- formal, adult-controlled sports
- rule-centered, more serious
- deviance
- consists of behaviours, ideas or characteristic that fall ouside a normally accepted range, because they involve extreme cases of over-conformity or underconformity
- hegemonic masculinity
- approved brand of cultural/societal masculinity
- over-conformity
- uncritical acceptance of rules
- violence
- use of excessive physical force, has the potential to harm or destruct, intentional
- ethnicity
- cultural heritage of a group of people, not based on biological traits
- interactionalist
- social order is created from the bottom up through social interaction
- comparative sensitivity
- popularity and meanings of sports across cultures
- ecosports
- natural play and unstructured games, non-traditional, competition not necessary to mastery
- aggression
- verbal or physical behaviour grounded in a desire to dominate, control or do bodily harm to another person
- quasi-criminal violence
- intent to injure, went too far, players believe that they crossed the line (head butting in soccer)
- informal, player-controlled sports
- for fun, just want to play
- conflict theory
- social order is based on economic interests and the use of economic power to exploit labour, how is sport used to maintain the interests of those with power and wealth
- functionalist
- based on shared values, want to promoste traditional values, build positive characters, contribute to order and stability
- sport ethic norm #3
- an athlete risks and plays through pain
- racism
- involves discrimination or unequal treatment of a race
- colonizing nations and immigrant relations
- minority groups may not partcipate in sports because of clashes with their religious/cultural backgrounds
- social class
- categories of people who share an economic position in terms of income, wealth, education, occupation and social connections
- sport ethic norm #2
- an athlete strives for distiction
- race logic
- beliefs shared by many people, used to describe and interpret people, behaviours
- cool pose
- a way in which black males have used physicality in the production of masculinity
- demographic trends
- average age increasing, life exectancy on the rise due to improved active lifestyles
- criminal violence
- usually takes place outside the arena
- feminist theory
- social order is gendered, men have all the power
- coersion
- descibes how more dominant social or political groups establish control over others by the process of forming consent around a partial ideology
- future trends
- trend away from violence, many technological innovations, athlete may be viewed as an object rather than a person
- race
- category of people regarded as socially distinct, share the same genetic traits
- one drop rule
- one drop of black blood makes you black
- brutal body contact
- check, tackle, collision
- class relations
- many ways that social classe is incorporated into social processes in society
- sport ethic norm #1
- an athlete makes sacrifices for "the game"
- hype in sports media
- less knowledge the audience has, the more excitement there has to be
- hegemony
- the power/dominance of one social group over another
- social stratification
- structural forms of economic equalities that are part of everyday social life
- minority group
- a socially identified collection of people who experience discrimination and suffer social disadvantages
- cultural ideology
- sets of interrelated ideas that people use to explain behavious and social life
- emphasized femininity
- excessive feminine features and roles
- native and non-native relations
- gradual, subtle, yet powerful assimilation
- critical theory
- social order is negotiated through struggles over representation and power
- sport ethic norm #4
- an athlete accepts no limits in the pursuit of possibilities
- socialization
- interact with one another and become acquianted with the social world in which we live
- under-conformity
- behaviour that involves a rejection of norms
- figurationl theory
- social order is based on interdependencies among individuals and groups
- historical sensitivity
- valuable to better understand the present
- critical sensitivity
- willingness to think and act critically, rejecting falsehoods when they exist
- borderline violence
- "officially" against the rules (high-sticking, elbows in soccer)