SMGT EXAM 3 QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED
ANSWERS (VERIFIED ANSWERS) |ALREADY GRADED
A+||BRAND NEW
What does it mean that gender, race, class, disability, religion, etc. are
social constructions? Ans✓✓✓We give meaning to the significance of
certain genders, races, classes etc. which provide context to hierarchical
structure; a perception of an individual, group, or idea that is
'constructed' through cultural or social practice.
What does it mean that gender, race, class, etc. intersect? Ans✓✓✓Each
one of the identifying factors intersect to provide a person with their
status/belonging in society. For ex: class and race- If you are african
american and lower class/ working class you are a targeted group, if you
are white and upper class you are a privileged individual
What is sport sociology? Ans✓✓✓Study of social behavior of
individuals, groups, organizations, institutions, communities, and
societies within sport
What do sport sociologists study? Ans✓✓✓It is the ability to perceive
situations and circumstances in a wide social context and observe how
interactions and actions are influential upon other individuals and
situations...focuses less on the individual and more on the broader
society
Describe and provide examples of the Micro and Macro levels of
sociological analysis. Ans✓✓✓Micro: emphasis on the structure of
relatively small groups like family and friends, small groups of people.
,Ex: friday night poker club, church group, HS football team
Macro (primary focus): social behavior that exists in larger social
settings with its own norms, values, roles and social institutions.
Ex: having money makes you powerful, popular and cool
What does it mean that sport is a microcosm of society? Ans✓✓✓Sport
is socially constructed...we give meaning to it
Sport reflects societal ideologies, values, socialization, stratification and
bureaucracy
Sport intersects many areas of social life
What does it mean that sport is "contested terrain"? Provide examples
for each topic below. Ans✓✓✓Continuing struggles over the meaning,
purpose and organization of sports
Describe the four methods of knowing, and provide examples for each
topic below Ans✓✓✓Method of Tenacity: People hold the truth that
they know has always been true because they hold firmly to it..reason
why we do it hasn't necessarily been proven we do it because people
have always done it
Ex:
, Method of Authority: Method of established belief
Ex:
Method of Intuition: Agrees with reason and not experience. Reaching
the truth because of individual inclinations toward the truth.
Ex:
Method of Science: Dependable knowledge attained through science
which reveals empirical evidence through objectivity and self-
correction.
Ex:
Describe the functionalist and conflict/culturalist views of the economy
Ans✓✓✓Functionalist: views the economy as a central social institution
because it is the means by which vital goods and services are produced
and distributed. A smoothly functioning economy provides social
stability.
Conflict/culturalist: the economy is an instrument of powerful and
wealthy social class domination, deriving its power from its ownership
and control of the forces of production. Dominant class exploits and
oppresses other classes.
How are professional sports a monopoly? Ans✓✓✓A monopoly exists
when a single business firm controls a market.
ANSWERS (VERIFIED ANSWERS) |ALREADY GRADED
A+||BRAND NEW
What does it mean that gender, race, class, disability, religion, etc. are
social constructions? Ans✓✓✓We give meaning to the significance of
certain genders, races, classes etc. which provide context to hierarchical
structure; a perception of an individual, group, or idea that is
'constructed' through cultural or social practice.
What does it mean that gender, race, class, etc. intersect? Ans✓✓✓Each
one of the identifying factors intersect to provide a person with their
status/belonging in society. For ex: class and race- If you are african
american and lower class/ working class you are a targeted group, if you
are white and upper class you are a privileged individual
What is sport sociology? Ans✓✓✓Study of social behavior of
individuals, groups, organizations, institutions, communities, and
societies within sport
What do sport sociologists study? Ans✓✓✓It is the ability to perceive
situations and circumstances in a wide social context and observe how
interactions and actions are influential upon other individuals and
situations...focuses less on the individual and more on the broader
society
Describe and provide examples of the Micro and Macro levels of
sociological analysis. Ans✓✓✓Micro: emphasis on the structure of
relatively small groups like family and friends, small groups of people.
,Ex: friday night poker club, church group, HS football team
Macro (primary focus): social behavior that exists in larger social
settings with its own norms, values, roles and social institutions.
Ex: having money makes you powerful, popular and cool
What does it mean that sport is a microcosm of society? Ans✓✓✓Sport
is socially constructed...we give meaning to it
Sport reflects societal ideologies, values, socialization, stratification and
bureaucracy
Sport intersects many areas of social life
What does it mean that sport is "contested terrain"? Provide examples
for each topic below. Ans✓✓✓Continuing struggles over the meaning,
purpose and organization of sports
Describe the four methods of knowing, and provide examples for each
topic below Ans✓✓✓Method of Tenacity: People hold the truth that
they know has always been true because they hold firmly to it..reason
why we do it hasn't necessarily been proven we do it because people
have always done it
Ex:
, Method of Authority: Method of established belief
Ex:
Method of Intuition: Agrees with reason and not experience. Reaching
the truth because of individual inclinations toward the truth.
Ex:
Method of Science: Dependable knowledge attained through science
which reveals empirical evidence through objectivity and self-
correction.
Ex:
Describe the functionalist and conflict/culturalist views of the economy
Ans✓✓✓Functionalist: views the economy as a central social institution
because it is the means by which vital goods and services are produced
and distributed. A smoothly functioning economy provides social
stability.
Conflict/culturalist: the economy is an instrument of powerful and
wealthy social class domination, deriving its power from its ownership
and control of the forces of production. Dominant class exploits and
oppresses other classes.
How are professional sports a monopoly? Ans✓✓✓A monopoly exists
when a single business firm controls a market.
