SPORTMGT 200 Study Guide - Spring 2019, Comprehensive Final Exam Notes - Socialization, Espn, White People
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Defining sports: play--> to and from, spontaneous play = not governed by anything. Institutionalized contest = strict rules: recreational contest = laid back rules. **sport is a specific form of play institutionalized, competitive, requires vigorous and/or complex physicality, where participant movements are primary governed by rules** Defining sociology and psychology: sociology = study of people and society. What is physical culture: body is more than biology--> can read bodies to find out about them, body is smart, academia makes sense of world through brain, athletes make sense of world with movement and senses. Identifier of sport: collective identity, socialization into social structures, organize hierarchy, specialize events, types pf rituals, transformative= become something else. Inversion ritual (powder-puff football games: new years eve, sports riots. Good socioligiack theory: explains to the point. **good sociological theory explains to the point of understanding and acknowledgement of the point of perspective**