KNES chapter 1 quiz 1

Vocabulary flashcards focusing on fundamental sociological terms, definition of sports, and core ideological frameworks covered in Chapter 1.

Sociology

The study of the social worlds that people create, maintain, and change through their relationships with each other.

Social world

An identifiable sphere of everyday actions and relationships (such as a family, a soccer team, an athletic department, a university, or a community).

Culture

The shared ways of life and shared understandings that people develop as they live together.

Social interaction

People taking each other into account and, in the process, influencing each other’s feelings, thoughts, and actions.

Social structure

The established patterns of relationships and social arrangements that take shape as people live, work, and play with each other.

Sports

Physical activities that involve challenges or competitive contests.

Play

An expressive activity done for its own sake, motivated by internal rewards.

Spectacle

A performance meant to entertain an audience for the sake of obtaining external rewards.

Physical culture

All forms of movement and physical activities that people in particular social worlds create, sustain, and regularly include in their collective lives.

Cheer

A competitive form of cheerleading considered an official sport by high school activities associations in 35 states, as opposed to college cheerleading which is not considered a sport.

Social constructions

Parts of the social world that are created by people as they interact with one another under particular social, political, and economic conditions.

Contested activities

Activities where there are struggles over their meaning, purpose, and organization, who is allowed to play and under what conditions, and who provides the resources to play.

Sociology of Sport

A subdiscipline of sociology and physical education that studies sports as social phenomena and focuses primarily on organized, competitive sports.

Psychology versus Sociology

Sociologists study actions and relationships in terms of social contexts, whereas psychologists study behavior in terms of attributes and processes that exist inside individuals.

The Great Sport Myth

The belief that sports are essentially pure and good, transferring this goodness to anyone involved, and therefore do not need to be studied or evaluated to be transformed or made better.

Ideology

A shared interpretive framework that people use to make sense of and evaluate themselves, others, and events in their social worlds.

Dominant Ideology

The ideas, beliefs, and interpretive frameworks favored by people who have power and influence in society, serving their interests.

Gender Ideology

Interrelated ideas and beliefs that are widely used to define masculinity and femininity, identify people as male or female, evaluate forms of sexual expression, and determine the appropriate roles of men and women in society.

Racial Ideology

Interrelated ideas and beliefs that are widely used to classify human beings into categories assumed to be biological and related to attributes such as intelligence, temperament, and physical abilities.

Social Class Ideology

Interrelated ideas and beliefs widely shared and used by people to evaluate their material status, explain why economic success, failures, and inequities exist, and determine what should be done about economic inequalities.

Ableist Ideology

Interrelated ideas and beliefs widely used to identify people as physically or intellectually disabled, justify treating them as inferior, and organize social worlds and physical spaces without taking them into account.

Ableism

Attitudes, actions, and policies based on the belief that people perceived as lacking certain abilities are inferior and, therefore, incapable of full participation in mainstream activities.