KINE 3P70 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Pierre De Coubertin, Social Class, Anti-Globalization Movement
9 May 2018
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KINE 3P70 Sociology of Sport
The Sociological Imagination
C. Wright Mills:
• Historical sensitivity: present & past
• Coparatie “esitiity: Ho its ee soially ostruted arious ultures
• Critical Sensitivity: willingness to think & act critically
Pierre de Coubertin
- founder of the Olympic Games (the biggest sport representative today)
Ways of Looking at Social Phenomena
• Microstructures: face-to-face social interactions
• Macrostructures: social relations, institutions
• Global structures: nations, cultures, societies
Social Structure
- Rules: internal assumptions, ideologies, external laws, regulations, and policies
- Resources: financial, material (equipment, property), and human
Grueau; three otale easures of poer
• Structure sport in preferred ays ad to istitutioalize these preferees i
sports rules and organizations
• Establish selective sports traditions
• Defie the rage of legitiate praties ad eaigs assoiated ith
dominant sports practices
Sociological Theory
- Democratic revolutions
• French rev.
• American rev. evolved, gradual
• Challenged traditional religious ways of life and beliefs
• Elected officials are responsible to the people
- Industrial revolution
• Created more efficient mass production of commodities
• Modern bureaucratic systems
• Mass population shift from rural to urban
• Efficient transportation; England
• Created social problems; crime, poverty, inhumane working conditions
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Document Summary
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