SPMT 304 FINAL (9,13,14)
Social class - correct answer ✔Categories of people who share an economic
position in society based on a combination of their:
Social stratification - correct answer ✔structured forms of economic
inequalities that are part of the organization of everyday life.
These inequalities influence life chances:
-Life chances are similar odds for achieving economic success and power in
society.
-Life chances vary from one social class to another in the social stratification
system.
Class relations - correct answer ✔The ways that social class is incorporated
into the organization of our everyday lives.
-Social class differences affect most parts of people's lives in the U.S.
-Why do Americans accept the reality of class and class relations without
debating it?
,Class ideology - correct answer ✔Interrelated ideas and beliefs that people
use to
-Understand economic inequalities
-Identify their class position
-Evaluate the impact of economic inequalities on the organization of social
worlds
Class ideology
in the US is based on: - correct answer ✔The American Dream:
A hopeful vision of boundless opportunities for individuals to succeed
economically and live a happy live based on consumption
Belief in meritocracy:
A form of social organization in which rewards go to people who earn them
due to their abilities and qualifications
Economic inequality, class relations, and sports - correct answer ✔The
meaning, organization, and purpose of sports are heavily influenced by money
and economic power.
Class relations in the U.S. are based on an ideology in which economic
success is equated with individual ability, worth, and character.
-Competitive power and performance sports reaffirm this ideology.
Class relations
and power in sports - correct answer ✔The most powerful people in sports
are white men who control the resources that sponsor sports and represent
sports in the media.
, -The most visible sports around the world revolve around the meanings and
orientations given priority by people with wealth and power.
"Power 50" in U.S. sports - correct answer ✔Sports Illustrated's "50 Most
Powerful People in Sports" ranks people on their power in and over sports.
Rankings change each year, but they consistently show that
-Power is based in organizations and rests in the hands of the white men who
control them.
-Athletes and coaches have little or no power to control the organization of
sports.
According to Antonio Gramsci - correct answer ✔Sports and other forms of
exciting entertainment are cultural vehicles for establishing "ideological
outposts" in the minds of people.
These outposts relay into the popular consciousness messages that reaffirm a
class ideology that legitimizes current forms of class inequality in society.
Class relations and cultural ideology - correct answer ✔Sports are valuable
cultural vehicles for
developing ideological "outposts" in the
minds of people around the world.
This is why transnational corporations spend billions of dollars to be primary
providers of popular pleasure and entertainment.
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