[APA1302] - Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam (21 pages long!)

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Human Kinetics
• Course: APA 1302
• Professor: Michael Robidoux

Document Summary

We must see sports as social phenomena that have meanings beyond everyday experience. What these meanings produce assist us in understanding : the societies in which sport exist, the social worlds that are created around sports, the experiences of individuals groups associated with sport. Responses from human kinetics students are typically positive. Sociology enables students/researchers to examine these issues through concepts and theories that emphasize the social as opposed to individual causes and that points toward structural solutions to problems identi ed in sport (hall, from text on p. 4) Sociology is the disciplined study of human social behaviour, especially the investigation of the origins, classi cations, institutions and developed of human society on a global level (de nition from henslin et al, from textbook p. 5) Sociology is interested in social interactions that take place between humans, groups and societies. It examines which social structures, power relations, and institutions enable and constrain individuals and groups.