APA 1302 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Contemporary Sociology, Antonio Gramsci, Proletariat
28 Feb 2018
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** research paper socio-cultural topic (ask locker) How healthy is sport: sport promotes physical activity which is healthy exercise. However, sport causes many injuries that may or may not affect someone in the in the future (example: back injury when you"re 18, could have an affect when you"re older. Approaching sport and physical activity: readings will be key, class lecture will raise many challenges of sport that we may be doing everyday. Reading review: functionalism and conflict theory were two of the first original theories used in. Sociology of sport: functionalism is based on positivism, conflict theory is based on social, cultural etc. conflicts, figurational theory (will be talked about often in class), research tradition in which we look at humans evolving. Why study sport and physical activity: we look at sport as some social phenomena; meaning it is beyond everyday life. What these meanings produce assist us in understanding: 1. The societies in which the sports exist: 2.
