Contemporary Issues In Sport Fall 2019 Packy Exam
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Nealon and Searles Giroux ANS Created the Theory Toolbox (2003) and Theory, Author/ity & Reading.
Developed as part of into to rhetoric course.
Penn State lecture class.
Part of a larger series on culture & politics.
Theory, Author/ity & Reading ANS Figure out where we sit in the process, understand our tools.
Theory ANS "Larger questions about the origins of knowledges, who holds them, and how such... were formed
and might be changed"
Authors list "arts, humanities and social sciences" as potential areas of influence.
Rule #1: Everything is suspect
-All perceptions are based in previous experience
-Not only direct experience but:
1. Culture
2. Family
3. Education
4. Myth
5. A multitude of stimuli that are only increasing
Author/ity ANS The Verb: act of writing and capturing a moment of knowledge through a point of view.
The noun: recognized expert or reference point within a field
ex. Tennessee Williams, Eugene O'Neill, Arthur Miller
Michel Foucault ANS -Concept of authorship in What is an Author?
,-Authors provide guideposts and boundaries of meaning and meaning making
Canonicity ANS -"List of 'great' works worthy of continued academic study"
-"Establishes the relationship to authority"
Readership ANS Issue of meaning making rooted in arbitrary nature of person.
-The word dog (linguistics calls this a signifier)
-An actual dog (the referent)
-The word in english "dog" shared between readers and writers of the symbol system (the signified)
What we are left with is the historical and the social threads to make meaning.
Nealon & Searls Giroux on Readership ANS Readership is that collision or production of meaning within a
certain set of signifiers... is about how a social system of signifiers words... a process in which one must take into
account the various contexts in which a situation... is produced, read, circulated and evaluated.
The Social Sciences ANS A broadly accepted definition of "the social sciences" is "the branches of study that
deal with humans in their social relations, including economics, anthropology, political science, psychology, and
sociology.
Why these tools in school? ANS The humanities and social sciences are the key to critical thinking and complex
reasoning and writing skills.
They are central to:
-Preparation to participate effectively in civic life
-General preparation for entry into the work force
-Teaching and performing science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM)
Economics ANS Study of:
-scarcity
-how people use resources
-decision making
,"Economics often involves topics like wealth, finance, recessions, and banking, leading to the misconception that
economics is all about money and the stock market."
"Actually, it's a much broader discipline that help us us understand historical trends, interpret today's headlines,
and make predictions for coming decades."
Business Science ANS management, accounting, marketing, finance, information systems, business ethics,
quantitative decision making
Anthropology ANS The American Anthropological Association defines the science as "the study of what makes
us human."
-"a broad approach to understanding the different aspects of the human experience - holism"
Four Subfields of Anthropology ANS Archeology
Biological
Cultural
Linguistic
Political Science ANS "A social science concerned chiefly with the description and analysis of political and
especially governmental institutions and processes"
Political Science in Sports ANS 1. olympic issues of international relations
2. potential international law questions in doping and eligibility issues
3. Youth development and calendar agreements
4. NCAA as a membership organization where politics rules
5. Consensus building and legislative process
6. government involvement in education and the educational involvement in sports intertwines the issues
Large organizations in sport take political understanding to maneuver
-NCAA as a member organization
-NFHS as a rule making group
, -IOC as a commerce engine
Psychology ANS American Psychological Association
-Writes the style guide for most social sciences
-The "scientific study of the behavior of individuals and their mental processes"
Psychology and Sport ANS 1. Performance coaching
2. Associative Need
3. Deviant Behavior
Sociology ANS "The scientific study of society, including patterns of social relationships, social interaction, and
culture."
Sociology in Sport ANS Structural issues in sport:
-Access
-Development
-Distribution of Attention
-Interplay of Constructions
Management ANS -Meeting goals or objectives to be achieved
-Within limited resources
-With and through people
-Chelladurai 2005
Goal of Sport Managers ANS To get workers to do what the manager wants in an efficient and cost-effective
manner
Management theory evolved through two phases ANS -Scientific management
-Human relations movements
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