SPO3004M Week 3

According to Suits (2007), sports are....?

• Planned, structured and repetitive movements that can be undertaken to reach a goal or target.

• Only team games involving a ball.

• Games that feature at the Olympic Games.

• All goal-directed activities adhering to rules.

Physical Activity is defined by the World Health Organisation as what?

• 'Planned participation in exercise'.

• 'What we do in our free time'.

• 'Any bodily movement produced by skeletal muscles that requires energy expenditure'.

• 'Forms the foundation for all sports'.

What are the social sciences?

• Types of scientific experiments.

• Visual and material culture.

• A group of academic disciplines dedicated to examining society.

• Why certain sports are the way they are.

Which of these disciplines are not examples of a social science?

• Psychology

• Physiology

• Economics

• Linguistics

• Physics

What do natural scientists argue?

• That people's behaviour is sociologically determined.

• That people impact their social environments.

• That we learn an acceptable of way of behaving in society through others.

• That people's behaviour is biologically determined.

Social justice in relation to sport is...?

• Exploring the effects of discrimination.

• Increasing the distribution of opportunities and privileges for those looking to participate in sport and leisure.

• How governments invest in sport to boost urban regeneration.

• The interventions and policies that organisations devise to help the government tackle inequality in society.

What are psychological skills?

• Pre-performance routines for elite athletes only.

• Ways of improving cardiovascular output to improve oxygen saturation levels.

• Mental strategies that athletes can use to enhance their performance and overall wellbeing.

• Skills possessed by coaches that are transferred to athletes through training programmes.

The aim of sociology is to try to...?

• Predict the future of society.

• Understand and explain human behaviour.

• Analyse the chemical composition of human bodies.

• Study the long-term developments of sports consumption and physical activity participation.

Why is 'Power' a useful concept in sport?

• Because it explains the lack of opportunity for women in grassroots football.

• Because it is relation among and between people. We can use it to explain issues within sport and society.

• Because it demonstrates who has mental strength and toughness to persevere in elite sport.

• Because it allows us to predict who will win medals, competitions, and trophies.

Erving Goffman said that there are three types of identity. What are they?

• Personal - Social - Ego

• Introvert - Extrovert - Combined

• Personal - Probable - Portrayal

• Ego - Social - Crisis