Kinesiology 2250A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Ontario Health Insurance Plan, Free Trade, Ethnocentrism

• School: Western University
• Department: Kinesiology
• Course: Kinesiology 2250A/B
• Professor: Michael Heine

Document Summary

Societal institutions: persistent patterns of behaviour in the context of specific forms of organization. Sports and politics: key take aways: potential connections that will be investigated. Politics: formalized processes and procedures of making decisions that affect collections of people, from small groups to societies and even multiple societies that are unified for certain purposes (ex. European union: sociological perspective: processes through which power is gained and used in social life, therefore, studied politics in families, communities, local and national sport organizations, societies, non- government organizations (ex. State the (societal) institution: government of the day persistent structures (administrative etc. , defines the position of the prime minister different then government. The nation: is a body of people who share a real or imagined common history, culture, language or ethnic origin. The state - not merely the government (societal institution: a complex of institutions, including government and also including the administration (civil service etc. , representative assemblies, the sub-central levels of government: provincial, municipal.