KINE 3P70 Study Guide - Fall 2018, Comprehensive Midterm Notes - Cold War, Olympic Games, Max Weber

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

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The sociological imagination: wright mills, historical sensitivity: present & past, co(cid:373)parati(cid:448)e e(cid:374)siti(cid:448)ity: ho(cid:449) it(cid:859)s (cid:271)ee(cid:374) so(cid:272)ially (cid:272)o(cid:374)stru(cid:272)ted (cid:448)arious (cid:272)ultures, critical sensitivity: willingness to think & act critically. Pierre de coubertin founder of the olympic games (the biggest sport representative today) Ways of looking at social phenomena: microstructures: face-to-face social interactions, macrostructures: social relations, institutions, global structures: nations, cultures, societies. Rules: internal assumptions, ideologies, external laws, regulations, and policies. Resources: financial, material (equipment, property), and human. Gru(cid:374)eau; (cid:858)three (cid:374)ota(cid:271)le (cid:373)easures of po(cid:449)er(cid:859: structure sport in preferred (cid:449)ays a(cid:374)d to (cid:858)i(cid:374)stitutio(cid:374)alize(cid:859) these prefere(cid:374)(cid:272)es i(cid:374) sports rules and organizations, establish selective sports traditions, defi(cid:374)e the ra(cid:374)ge of (cid:858)legiti(cid:373)ate(cid:859) pra(cid:272)ti(cid:272)es a(cid:374)d (cid:373)ea(cid:374)i(cid:374)gs asso(cid:272)iated (cid:449)ith dominant sports practices. Democratic revolutions: french rev, american rev. evolved, gradual, challenged traditional religious ways of life and beliefs, elected officials are responsible to the people. I is the response of the organism to the attitudes of the others.