EDKP 405- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 45 pages long!)
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What is sociology/sport/sociology of sport/current status of socio. Sports more than just games & meets. Studying sociological approach = key to understanding & thinking beyond this phenomenon. *people who study sports in society concerned w/ deeper meanings & stories associated w/ sports: cultures & societies in which, social worlds created around, experience of individuals & *course = from critical perspective examining sports as they exist in people"s lives & social contexts. How are elite young hockey players viewed in. Ex: nazem kadri in toronto maple leafs= 1st. The ways of life people create as they participate in a group / society. Consists of all socially invented ways of thinking feeling acting that emerge in particular groups as people try to survive/meet their needs/achieve a sense of. *sociologists study how people with more power & resources use them in social world. Pelada = soccer in favela / brazil"s slums soul of brazilian soccer.