HSMT 3910 - Test 1

What is "Thinking"

Any mental activity that helps formulate or solve a problem to make a decision and fulfill a desire to understand. It is searching for answers and meaning - Ruggiero

In what ways is "thinking" important for sporting industries?

Knowledge exploration, communication, technologies, resolution, economic profits, and important for general decision making and problem solving.

Content Warning Definition

Verbal or written notices that potentially sensitive content; allows people to prepare for the material presented

Trigger warning definition

A specific variety of content warning that warn people of content that may provoke intense physiological and psychological symptoms of PTSD or other anxiety disorders.

Shane Warne

A famous Australian cricket player who achieved celebrity like status - one of Australia's first.

Lance Armstrong

Is a cyclist who was found to have been taking PED's; although denied a lot of the allegations.

Systematic Drugs

The use of drugs in sport as a way to improve status, often inter-related to politics, money, gambling, and general misunderstandings from doctors.

What is the overall objective of HMST3910

To think critically and reflectivity about sport and physical activity

What does Ruggiero say about Feelings

There is no logical way to the discovery of complex scientific laws... there is only the way of intuition which is helped by feeling of order lying behind the appearance.

What are 5 things that effective problem solvers do

1. Decide how to attack problems

2. Bring knowledge to bear

3. Apply systems

4. Trust reasoning

5. Critique assumptions.

What are 5 thing that ineffect problem solvers do

1. Connect settle on a way to begin

2. Lack knowledge

3. Haphazard approach to problem

4. Distrust reasoning

5. Lack Critical attitude

What are 3 points about "Winning"

1. Sets up failure

2. Reinforces capitalistic objectives of competitions

3. Levels of competition, children, pleasures.

Three common flawed methods of "knowing"

1. Experince

2. Observation

3. Report

Opinions have 2 key distinctions

Expression of taste (like and dislike)

Expressions of Judgement

Assertions about the truth of things or about the wisdom of a course of action

Judgement is as good as the evidence that supports them.

4 Principles of Moral Judgment

1. Obligations

2. Ideals

3. Consequences

4. Circumstances

Obligations

Relationships with other people create obligations

(formal or informal)

Ideals

Certain ideals enhance human life and assist people fulfilling their obligations.

(Tolerance, Compassion, Loyalty, Fairness)

Consequences

Benefit some and harm others.

(emotional, momentary, lost lasting, Subtle or Obvious)

Circumstances

The context changes the understanding of the situations

Particulars are important

6 things that are important to Modern Sport

Secularism

equality

Specialization

Rationalization

Bureaucratization

Quantity and Records

Socialization

Learning and developing social skills occurring as we interact with one another and become familiar in the various social worlds. Identity formation

3 questions about becoming and staying involved in sport

Who plays over time

who plays and quits

who never plays

Socialization with Sport depends on 3 key issues

1. A persons ability, characteristics, and resources

2. The influence of significant others

3. The availability of opportunities

"Physical Literacy" Coakley

You are considered physically literate if you have the ability confidence and desi to be physically active for life.

3 concerns about Physical Literate Levels

Decreasing amounts of unsupervised play outside the home

increasing entertainment and media

failures of organized sport of attract young people.

Socialization into sport is continuous and interactive based on 3 things

Family culture

Adolescences and choice

identity formation.

4 ways to social in sports

1. Acquiring knowledge about the sport

2. Associating with people in the sport

3. learning how those people think about the sport and what they expect from others.

4. Becoming recognized and accepted into the sport group as a fellow athlete.

There are subcultural differences in sports involving

social rituals, processes, values, language, music, and codes on behavior

Sport as Resistance

Can be oppositional to dominate culture or specific activities and subcultural styles.

Bra Boys

A group of younger men who have faced hardships in youth

Tattoos, gang behaviors, fighting, ride or die mentality, foul language

Reasons to change or end sport participation

Normal life changes

Burnout

Stopping and restarting participation

Transition out of competitive sport careers(injury)

Great Sports Myth

Participation in sport is always positive and therefore there is no need to study it .

Dominate stories told via sports

Capitalism and Militarism

Social worlds

identifiable spheres of everyday actions and relationships

Society vs Culture

Relatively self sufficing collection who maintain in a territory

vs

Shared ways if life that people develop as they live together.

What are groups to consider when studying spots?

Sex, Gender, sexuality, special class, wealth, age, able-body, company, regard, working conditions, controlled.

What are contested activities in sports

1. The meanings, purpose, and organization of sports

2. who plays under what conditions

3. how sports will be sponsored and controlled.

Do sports increase social capital (what is social capital)

Yes, they are resources that link people to social worlds in positive ways

Meritocracy

power is held at the top

when is it especially important to be critical

When people are trying to persuade (Francis Bacon - reading is reasoning)

To be a critical reader - do we have to remove the authour from the sources

Yes

difference: Trust v Judgement

Evidence

Difference: facts v interpretation

Validity and strength of argument

Difference: Literal v Ironic

Uses sarcasm

Quality of expression

Things can mean the same thing but said differently

Difference Language v reality

what are people actually saying.

What are the 5 steps of Critical reading

1. Skim Work

2. Reflect of personal values

3. Read it

4. Evaluate what you read

5. Express judgement

Social interaction Model

Organized around a combination of cultural, interaction, and structural theories.

Why don't young people participate in sport

1. Connection to sport participation and their own growth and development

2. Desires to display and develop competence and gain recognition respect from others

3. family and peer supports

4. access to resources

5. memories and past experiences

6. Social cultural significant is sports in social worlds

Burnout Factors

Exhaustion, devaluation, inability to improve

Stopping and Stating Factors

Modifications, dedications, humour, homage (think about skateboarding)

quality of exits

1. anticipation

2. opportunities from growth

3.centrality and importance of identity

4. satisfaction with performance

5. how to maintain connection with teams

6. social and emotional supports

Important considerations for studying sport socialization

sport experiences are diverse, selection processes, people change, meaning of sport varies, relationships, contextual , some are not unique

Power Performances

Pushing limits via power, speed, and strength to achieve competitive winning

hard work and sacrifice

exclusive process

play through pain

chain of command

conquering

Pleasure and Play

Connecting with others mind body and environment

Personal expression and demonstration of health

Inclusive and accommodating

Democratic

Partnerships.

Hegemony

domination over others