SOCI 395 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Jon Entine, Usain Bolt, Theory Of Multiple Intelligences
16 May 2018
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SOCI 495
March 19, 2018
Race, Sports and the Media
• Diffiult fo people fo a pedoiatel hite ultue to aept people of othe ultues
and races into the collective
• Itesetioalit of gede ad atioal idetit
• Not all hite ad lak people epeiee the sae kid of disiiatio --> not all women
suffer from the same issues --> intersections are important to keep in mind, tend to
compartmentalize
• Steeotpes ad iolog, ho uh has to do ith ae ad ethnicity and how much it
determines
Video: White men can't jump
Are blacks better athletes?
• Whites ae aiashed to thik that laks ae ette at spots tha the ae
• Biologial aguet --> evidence for black superiority in sports
• Agues that black people are better are running, how do we explain more black men in the
Olympics than white men?
Jon Entine Taboo
• East/Noth Afias doiate log-distance racing
• Blaks doiate pofessioal asketall
• Must e a geeti/iologial component?
Why is this a social problem?
• A group we know to be overall disadvantaged and this group has superior skills/abilities in
some field, like sports, what could be wrong with talking about it?
• Athletiis, itelligee ad lak ultue --> reveals the stereotypes that are nurtured by the
public and media
• Whe e sa that lak people ae ette athletes, ee also saig/pepetuatig the
stereotypes that they are worse at other things --> this is what really matters.
• If thees a elief of natural physical superiroity, there's a subtext of natural mental inferiority
--> less responsible, reliable, smart, wild, less logical, less self-control, more unpredictable
--> might be better at sports, dance, sex
• Blaks ae phsiall supeio, akes the steeotpe that ae ae at a ealie stage of
evolution, closer to apes.
• Like apes, thy
• the are stronger nad more athetletic
• But inferior cognitive abilities
Multiple Intelligence and Minority Groups
• IQ is poleati, diffeet kids of itelligee
• Othe as of eig sat itelliget --> linguisitic, musical, artisitc, spatial, street smarts
• If that's tue ae e a sa that Mihael Joda, Usai Bolt, Beoe all hae e high
intelligence. It's just a different kind of intelligence.
• Exceptional control over body, musical intelligence
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Document Summary
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