Sport as a Microcosm of Society
Sport and Social Class
Societal Value Placed on Sport
Sport Mascots
Drug Use in Sport
100
A perspective that views society as analogous to a living organism, with each part contributing functionally to the organism’s survival.
What is a functionalist perspective?
100
The two primary beliefs inform and support class ideology in the United States
What are: Belief in the American Dream The United States is a Meritocracy
100
This high school spent $200k on a bleached turf
What is Belle Vernon Area High School?
100

This professional sports team has received the most media attention regarding its battle to keep its team name.

Who are the Washington Redskins?

100
Any substance taken by athletes to improve performance.
What is Performance Enhancing Drugs (PED)?
200
Something (such as a place or an event) that is seen as a small version of something much larger
What is a Microcosm?
200
Refers to structured forms of economic inequalities that are part of the organization of everyday life.
What is Social Stratification?
200
This university denied $3 million in faculty pay raises while at the same time offered its football coach a $500k pay raise.
What is Texas Tech?
200

This company announced it would offer financial support to any U.S. high school that wants to change its logo or mascot “from potentially harmful Native American imagery or symbolism.”

What is Adidas?

200
Stimulant drug that is commonly used by NFL players.
What is Adderall?
300
Happens when prejudice against or in favor of people belonging to a particular social class occurs.
What is Classism?
300
The three achievement indicators athletes possess for more upward social mobility than non-athletes.
What are: Occupational Sponsorship Well-Rounded Applicants Transferable Skills
300
Wrote that polls show consistent majorities do not want public funds spent on stadiums.
Who is Dave Zirin?
300

The name of the commercial criticizing the Washington Redskins use of Redskins as their team name?

What is "Proud To Be"?

300
Use (socially or casually) of a legal, controlled, or illegal drug with the primary intention to alter one’s state of consciousness.
What is Recreational Drug Use?
400
Stems from conflict theory, focuses on the role dominant groups play in North American social institutions (e.g., men over women, rich over poor, and Whites over people of color).
What is Hegemonic Theory?
400
Refers to categories of people who share an economic position in society based on their income, wealth, education, occupation, and social connections.
What is Social Class?
400

This Center for College Affordability and Productivity found that most students at this institution were unaware of how much fee money went towards athletics.

What is Ohio University?
400

Jim Loewen wrote about his experiences at this university.

What is Illinois?

400
The national anti-doping organization in the United States.
What is USADA?
500
A statement of constructs and their relationships to one another.
What is Theory?
500
Three of the six myths regarding sport as a mobility escalator.
What are: 1) Sport provides a free college education 2) Sport leads to a college degree 3) A professional sports career is possible 4) A professional sports career provides security for life 5) Sport is a way out of poverty 6) Title IX has given woman social mobility opportunities
500
Over the past 15 years, this bankrupt city has spent $850M of public money on sport facilities.
What is Detroit?
500

The Washington Redskins argument for keeping their "disparaging" trademark.

What is "of the more than 3 million trademarks registered since 1870, no registration has ever been retroactively canceled for being disparaging?"

500
The core document that harmonizes anti-doping policies, rules and regulations within sport organizations and among public authorities around the world
What is the World Anti-Doping Code (aka The Code)?
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