American sports in society – Flashcards
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Race
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Population of people who are believed to be naturally or biologically distinct from other populations
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Ethnicity
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A cultural heritage that people use to identity a particular population
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Ethnic population
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A category of people regarded as socially distinct because they share a way of life, a collective history, and a sense do themselves as people
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Minority
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Socially identified population that suffers disadvantages due to systematic discrimination and has a strong sense of social togetherness based on shared experiences of past and current discrimination
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Racial ideologies
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Ideas and beliefs that are widely used to classify human beings in categories assumed to be biological and related to attributes such as intelligence, temperament, and physical abilities
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Racism
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Attitudes,actions, and polices based on the belief that people in one racial category are inherently superior to people in one or more other categories
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Genocide
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Systematic destruction of identifiable population
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Racial stereotypes
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Generalizations used to define and judge all individuals who are classified in a particular racial category
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The class ideology underlying dominant sport forms in North America involves the belief that
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economic success is proof of ability, worth, and character
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In the Sporting News list of the Most Powerful People in [U.S.] Sports during 2006, the people most represented in the top 25 of the list primarily were
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CEOs of transnational media companies.
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The lifestyles of middle-income and working-class people are most likely to include those sports that have traditionally been
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free, open, and sponsored with public funds.
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Laberge and Albert studied French Canadian boys and found that middle-class boys linked sport participation to masculinity because they saw sports as an arena
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for gaining social acceptance in male groups.
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NCAA data on the probability of playing sports beyond high school lead to the conclusion that
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less than one half of one percent of high school athletes play pro sports.
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Data on athletic scholarships in NCAA schools indicate that
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over 60 percent of all athletes play with no athletic scholarships.
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Data show that ticket prices at men's professional sports in North America have
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public money is transferred to wealthy individuals and corporations
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Race is the state of belonging to a social group that has a common, national or cultural tradition.
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False
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A broad social group term such as "Native American" or a narrow social group term such as "Cherokee" is an example of
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ethnicity
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Race and Ethnicity have really subjective lines that are frequently blurred
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true
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Federal policy defines "Hispanic" as a:
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ethnicity
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At this point, gender Does Not have a lot to do with getting the job or not. Once a female gets a job (I.e. Sport Caster) they do not face difficulties or threats based on their gender.
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false
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The Casey Martin case is an example of government intervention designed to
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ensure fairness and protect human rights.
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Research shows that if maintaining health and fitness is the goal, a nation should sponsor sports that are
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noncompetitive and have aerobic benefits.
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Sports do bring people together and create "emotional unity," but a sociological understanding of the significance of this unity requires that we ask questions about
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the long-term political consequences of the unity
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Dominant racial ideology in the U.S. during most of the 20th century was based on the belief that whiteness was a pure and innately special racial category. This belief
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has created a deep cultural acceptance of racial segregations and inequalities
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Recent research in biology and genetics has led to the conclusion that
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the concept of race has no biological validity.
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Tiger Woods, the popular and successful professional golfer, identifies himself as
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Cablinasian.
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A major problem with racial ideology today is that it
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supports the existence of racism and the use of racial stereotypes.
