Question: McDonald & Birrell’s (1999) article encourage us to “read sport critically.” This means that we should analyze sport to try and understand:
Answer Choices:
Coaching strategies
How and where power operates in sport
Participation and performance
Psychological dimensions
Answer: How and where power operates in sport
Question: Darnell’s (2017) chapter on sports and socialization suggests that playing sports is both a physical and a ________ experience.
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Social
Difficult
Expensive
Emotional
Answer: Social
Question: Coakley (2017) claims that elite athletes and coaches use a sport ethic to guide their attitudes and actions in the world of power and performance sport. Which is not a norm included in this sport ethic?
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Athletes care for their long-term physical and mental health
Athletes strive for distinction
Athletes accept risks and play through pain
Athletes accept no obstacles in the pursuit of success in sports
Answer: Athletes care for their long-term physical and mental health
Question: When Schultz (2012) refers to Caster Semenya as an “accidental celebrity,” she means to suggest that:
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Semenya accidentally found fame as a runner from South Africa.
Semenya faced intense media scrutiny after being subjected to gender verification tests.
Semenya accidentally became a celebrity from her excessive posts on Instagram.
Answer: Semenya faced intense media scrutiny after being subjected to gender verification tests.
Question: The idea that sport is essentially pure and good, and that this transfers to all who participate in it is identified as the “Great Sport Myth” by Coakley (2017).
Answer Choices:
True
False
Answer: True
Question: Chawansky (2016) analyzes posts on Brittney Griner’s Instagram account to explore issues of visibility for lesbian athletes.
Answer Choices:
True
False
Answer: True
Question: Overconformity to sporting norms is often encouraged in sports even though it can lead to negative health outcomes.
Answer Choices:
True
False
Answer: True
Question: According to Smith (1983), there are four categories of violence in sport. Which of the following is not one of the types identified by Smith (1983)?
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Unconscious violence
Brutal body contact
Criminal violence
Borderline violence
Answer: Unconscious violence
Question: Microaggressions can be related to race, gender, religion, and sexuality.
Answer Choices:
True
False
Answer: True
Question: What does Coakley (2017) define as: “Interrelated ideas and beliefs that are widely used to classify human beings in categories assumed to be biological and related to attributes such as intelligence, temperament, and physical abilities?”
Answer Choices:
Racial ideologies
Ethnicity
Racial values
Racial classification
Answer: Racial ideologies
Question: According to Gastry and Metzger (2017), microaggressions can negatively impact the mental health of athletes.
Answer Choices:
True
False
Answer: True
Question: McDonald & Birrell (1999) encourage us to consider intersections of identity categories instead of thinking about these concepts in isolation. For example, this means that we should study the interplay of ______________ within a person’s sporting life.
Answer Choices:
Gender and Race
Gender or Race
Gender
High School and College
Answer: Gender and Race
Question: Caster Semenya, the middle-distance runner from South Africa, gained international attention after:
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Testing positive for performance-enhancing drugs (PED)
Coming out as a lesbian
Protesting the treatment of women in South Africa
Being subjected to “gender verification” tests
Answer: Being subjected to “gender verification” tests
Question: What is a violation of an unwritten custom or shared understanding that is punished by informal sanctions and administered by observers or peers?
Answer Choices:
Deviant overconformity
Informal norm
Formal norm
Informal deviance
Answer: Informal deviance
Question: Anderson-Minshall (2005) reports on the history of transsexual athletes in US sport. The first well-known transsexual athlete to compete at a high level in sport was:
Answer Choices:
Duttee Chand
Renee Richards
Caster Semenya
Stella Walsh
Answer: Renee Richards
Question: Interdisciplinary research on sport and physical activity encourages us to think about:
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Key differences in the fields of psychology and sociology
How sociology and psychology can come together to create new knowledge
Why we should focus on either sociology or psychology
The importance of the natural sciences
Answer: How sociology and psychology can come together to create new knowledge
Question: Microaggressions can be divided into three categories. Which of the following is not a category of microaggression?
Answer Choices:
Microinsult
Microattack
Microinvalidation
Microassault
Answer: Microattack
Question: In the sports world, an athlete who does not obey the norms of a sport ethic is often labeled as a “quitter” or a “loser.”
Answer Choices:
True
False
Answer: True
Question: Chawansky (2016) examines the experiences of Brittney Griner and uses the concept of intersectional invisibility to help explain:
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The limited academic attention given to Black lesbians.
The overlapping challenges of fame and power for young athletes.
The ways in which sexuality matters in sports.
The difficulties with coming out as GLBT in sport.
Answer: The limited academic attention given to Black lesbians.
Question: According to Coakley (2017), when research seeks to identify genetic explanations for the achievement of Black athletes, how do sociologists respond?
Answer Choices:
Sociologists raise questions about the purpose and validity of this type of research.
Sociologists support research with this aim.
Sociologists raise questions about the funding for this type of research.
Sociologists regularly seek to participate in this type of research.
Answer: Sociologists raise questions about the purpose and validity of this type of research.