Things related to the A's
An perspective that favors younger people over older people; assumes that older people aren't capable of certain activities.
Ageism
Competitive or recreation sports for people with physical disabilities.
Adaptive sport
Categories of people who share an economic position in society based on a combination of things including income, wealth, education, occupation, and social connections.
Social class
A market economy and a large densely populated city.
Conditions needed to emergence & growth of commercial sports.
Formal deviance
Perspective where the label of disability marks a person as inferior and incapable.
Ableism
Paralympic Games
Structured forms of economic inequalities that are part of the organization of everyday social life.
Social stratification
Speeding up action and increasing scores and scoring chances.
Examples of rules changes to make a game more exciting and profitable.
Shared expectation that people use to identify what is acceptable and unacceptable in a social world.
Norm
Physical, sensory, or intellectual condition that potentially limits a person's full participation in different environments.
Impairment
Adaptive sport
The American Dream and a belief in meritocracy
What class ideology in the United States is based on.
Monopoly
One of the primary norms of the Sport Ethic
Overprotective family members and lack of family resources.
Barrier to participation in sports for people with a disability
Games that create an opportunity for people with intellectual disabilities to engage in sport.
Special Olympics
Changes in wealth, education, and occupation over a person's lifetime or from one generation to the next in families.
Social mobility
Minimize bidding for athletes' contracts
Monopsony
Words, gestures, and actions that threaten violence or aggression
Intimidation
Federal law that requires necessary accommodations to allow people with a disability to play sport.
Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
Sports that join people with and without intellectual disabilities to compete on the same sport team.
Unified sports
3-7 years
An employer-imposed work stoppage that suspends all games and practices until the dispute is resolved.
Lockout
Violates game rules but is accepted and considered within norms (e.g., brushback pitch in baseball or fistfight in hockey).
Borderline violence