KIN 2501 : KIN 2501 Test 1 Notes
15 Mar 2019
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Kinesiology is the study of movement: kinesiology started off as teachers that are helping people, changed from pe teachers to athletic trainers, fitness studies , corporations started building gyms so they could have happier, healthier, employees. Ideas that have withstood the test of time: great works of literature such as the iliad and the odyssey, the thoughts and ideas of ancient philosophers like socrates and. Plato: great architectural monuments like the pyramids of egypt, the. So how is sport different from a game and from play. We believe we have control of our actions and outcomes of the play being done and the outcome of it. Ex: a king hunting just for entertainment, while peasants did it for survival. Arriving at definition of sport- sports sociologist do not agree on one universal definition of sport: may not fit into a universally accepted definition because of factors such as: religion, social class, and historical period.
