Kinesiology 2000A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Michael Sam, Typical Male, Ronda Rousey
27 Feb 2017
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Sociology of Sports and Exercise 1
Sociology
• The study of human social behaviour and its origins, development, organizations and
institutions.
• Investigates such issues as:
o How does sport impact our ideas about gender, equality, achievement,
individualism, and violence?
o How is the sport organization connected via social relations to societies, family,
education, politics, media and religion?
• What dies a sociologist of physical activity do?
o Teach
o Research
o Service (ie. Serve on the board of local gym clubs)
o Understand sport in society and to have the knowledge to implement and advocate
for positive change
Gender Relations and Physical Activity
• These are some of the things we will explore during this online lecture – issues of
expression in sport:
1. Sport and heterosexual manhood
2. Less coverage of women’s sport
3. Conceptions of beautiful bodies
1. Gay athletes in Sport
• Opportunities should be given to everyone regardless of sexual orientation or other
personal differences)
• Michael Sam 2014 – football player who came out as gay in 2014. Went to Missouri
University. The team supported him, the question is will the NFL? He didn’t end up
making the team because you had other coaches making grey area comments that he
could be a problem in the locker room, how it would affect the dynamic of the team.
2. Popular media representations
• Is there a disparity in coverage between males and females?
• YES. Research has been done in colleges; findings are in female sport, the
adjectives tend to use words on artistic qualities (ex. Gracefulness) where as in
men, the talked about skill and knowledge for same sport.
• For women: the focus is on artic qualities
• For men: focus is on movements, skills, and strategic knowledge
• Research has shown a tendency for announcers to minimize female skills and knowledge
of the game – what can we do going forward to remove this bias?
• Make sure that there’s more female commentators in sport – however female
commentators adapt and mold themselves to a typical male mannerisms.
• Training commentators on what’s appropriate to say – because this may be
unintentional.
3. Conceptions of Beautiful Bodies: Body Culture
• A focus on outward appearance
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Document Summary
Sociology: the study of human social behaviour and its origins, development, organizations and institutions. He didn"t end up making the team because you had other coaches making grey area comments that he could be a problem in the locker room, how it would affect the dynamic of the team: popular media representations. Is there a disparity in coverage between males and females: yes. Research has been done in colleges; findings are in female sport, the adjectives tend to use words on artistic qualities (ex. 2: marion bartoli, everyone saying she was too ugly to win wimbledon, golf digest, finally put a female on the cover who wasn"t even a female golfer put paulina. Espn: espn ticker 96. 4 % of the information scrolling along the bottom of the screen was dedicated to only men"s sports. Coaches: expression, media portrayals of white and african american athletes.
