KINE 3P70 Study Guide - Comprehensive Midterm Guide: Roger Bannister, Pierre De Coubertin, The Sociological Imagination

• School: Brock University
• Department: Physical Education and Kinesiology
• Course: KINE 3P70
• Professor: Ian Ritchie

Document Summary

Throughout human history, have told stores of the nature of the social world around them. Readings* (7-10) be aware of social context not organizations and dates. Defining sport, looking at sport, sociological imagination*12-14, other major concepts 14-17. What is sport sociology? competitive against one another. Thinking contrary to common sense thinking, ideas people have in common) thinking about sport. Comparing sociology to (cid:494)common sense(cid:495) ((cid:883). rational thinking (cid:884). literal (cid:498)common sense is the collection of prejustices acquired by age eighteen(cid:499) (cid:498)people have always competed(cid:499) the idea that competition is (cid:494)natural(cid:495) is incorrect. Independent thinking, tends to fall into a trap of thinking individualistically. practice of sport historical scene in terms of its meaning for the inner life: example 2: pierre de coubertin (founder of modern olympic games) Modern olympics will reinforce ancient greek ideas of: appreciated the person as a mind and body together, the notion that the greeks did sport for the love of it.