Sociology of Sport Study Guide Interrogating Excellence Chambliss‚ “The Mundanity of Excellence: An Ethnographic Report on Stratification and Olympic Swimmers.” “Excellence”- “consistent superiority of performance” What does NOT produce excellence Excellence is not the product of socially deviant personalities Quantitative changes in behavior Natural talent or ability What does it come from Qualitative differentiation More of what is done than how long 3 dimensions of difference Technique
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Sociology in sport Film review: bend it like Beckham Bend it like beckham is based on Jess‚ a 17 year old British born‚ Sikh girl who has an undying passion for football‚ her favourite player is David Beckham and he is exactly who jess wants to be. But jess’s parents have taken every effort to stay in touch with the families Indian heritage. Jess ’ father and mother are after their daughter to go to law school‚ learn to cook a traditional Indian dinner‚ and settle down with a nice Indian boy
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Violence in sport has become far too commonplace. Aggressive sports such as football and hockey involve many aggressive tactics; however far too often do these aggressive tactics become overshadowed by deliberate acts of violence with the intent to cause bodily harm to an opponent. Many professional and non-profession athletes‚ as well as coaches‚ have adapted the mentality that winning is the common goal that all who participate in sport strive for and therefore feel that engaging in violent acts
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Functionalist perspective on the role of education A functionalist’s perspective on education is to examine society in terms of how it is maintained or in other words how it is ran effectively. A functionalist exaggerates on positive aspects of schools such as socialisation‚ learning skills and attitudes in school. This is because functionalists believe everything in society happens for a reason to instil the smooth running of society. They see no wrong in society and turn their nose down at the
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Topic: The conflict perspective views society less as a cohesive system and more as an arena of conflict and power struggles. Compare and contrast the main tenet of the Functionalist and Conflict Perspectives. Over the years‚ sociologist has put forward their views when it came to defining‚ studding and understanding society. Society can be defined as a group or unit of people living in a geographical area‚ sharing a similar background and/or culture. In sociological term‚ a society is any group
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1970 that sports sociology has gained significant attention as a serious area of study. This is in part owing to the increasing major role sports play in our lives and the intellectual traditions in both physical education and sociology. In 1978‚ the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport was organized as a professional association; and its scholarly outlet for research‚ the Sociology of Sport Journal‚ was established in 1984. The International Committee for Sociology of Sport is acknowledged
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Basis of the structural functionalist perspective A society is a complex unit‚ made up of interrelated parts. All these parts form the structure of the society and each sub unit has to perform its given task. Social structures are stressed and placed at the center of analysis and social functions are deduced from these structures. This perspective looks at how the various parts of the society come together and perform their individual tasks interdependently and interrelated to promote social stability
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Assignment #1 The first major theoretical perspective is the functionalist perspective‚ which also goes by the names functionalism and structural functionalism. These types of perspectives are commonly based on the theory that society is a stable‚ orderly system. Under the functionalist perspective‚ a society is said to be composed of many different parts‚ which are interrelated and serves different functions that in the end contributes to the stability of the society. Many factors‚ such as education
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1. What is sociology? What are the aims‚ uses and concerns of sociology? (Criteria 1.1‚ Level 2 and level 3) Sociology is the systematic study of patterns of human behavior between different societies and how they are transmitted through generations. It is concerned with the study of various social institutions within society and how they function and affect each other. For example‚ the influence the family might possibly have on whether a child is religious or not. Sociology is also the study of
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Functionalism The functionalist theory focuses on society as a system of interrelated institutions and structures that are designed to address human needs. They view society as functioning best when there is agreement about the social values and norms. The functionalist theory asserts that our lives are guided by social structures‚ which are relatively stable patterns of social behavior in each society. Each social structure has social functions for the operation of society as a whole. Functionalists see social
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