REC100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Solidarity
23 Jul 2020
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Sport is the institutionalized competitive activities: rigorous physical exertion, use of relatively complex physical skills by participants, direct participation, active participation. Indirect participation: coaches, officials, administrators, spectators, majority of sports participants practice a small amount of sports on a regular basis, two national sports, lacrosse (summer) and ice hockey (winter) Three levels of sport: community organizations and schools, agency-based programs. Run through membership fees, fundraising or sponsorship: national youth organizations, private sports clubs. Require parents to pay significant fees or fundraise, especially in sport such as gymnastics or figure skating: municipal programs. Lowering stress and anxiety: reduce symtoms of depression, higher ratings of subjective well-being, psychosocial and social health benefits, building character and competence, emotional regulation, positive affect. Integrating positions of power in sports organizations to reflect greater diversity: leisure and gender. Strength, power, competitiveness, aggression: doping in sports. Subpar drug-testing standards at the collegiate level: testing done at the training camp rather than the regular season.
