Soc of Sport
TEST 2 REVIEW
Lecture Materials
Arguments for and against interscholastic sports
NCAA Division III has more athletes than any other NCAA division.
Studying deviance in sports presents problems for four reasons
The reasons that it is difficult to study deviance in sports is that
Much of the deviance in sports involves actions grounded in…
It has become difficult to determine what actions are deviant and what actions are accepted parts of athletic training today because…
A social constructionist approach to deviance is based on…
Deviance involving overconformity
“The sport ethic”
The core norms of the sport ethic
The sport ethic is linked to deviance in sports because athletes…
The sport ethic becomes a source of dangerous deviance in sports when…
The athletes most likely to overconform to the norms of the sport ethic are those who…
Hubris
The emergence and growth of commercial sports depend on whether they…
Commercial sports are most likely to grow and prosper in societies with…
Commercial sports are most well-established in cultures where lifestyles
involve…
Golf has become a major commercial sport in certain countries because
those who are interested in golf…
Football has become “
The unit on sports and the media is based on the assumption that…
All media coverage involves selective “re-presentations” of sports
Nearly all television broadcasts of sport events are sponsored by…
The rights fees for the Olympic Games have increased dramatically since the 1984
Los Angeles Games.
In accommodating the interests of commercial television, many sports have
willingly made trade-offs in order to increase their commercial appeal.
Those claiming that television corrupts sports generally fail to realize
that…
Golf and tennis are frequently covered sports on television because they…
Compared to past coverage, current media representations of race and ethnicity…
Eitzen CH 5
social control functions
The research on sports participation in high schools reveals that it…
There are several consequences of interscholastic athletics.
They are…
Data on interscholastic athletic participation rates show that the current
rates for girls are…
There are three indicators that sport is already at the corporate level at
some high schools.
Eitzen CH 6
College athletes on an official NCAA full-ride athletic scholarship
Which category of athletes has the highest graduation rate?
Big-time intercollegiate sports programs typically do not make a profit.
Football and basketball coaches at big time universities are typically paid…
One consequence of an intercollegiate athletic department’s search for money is…
The NCAA rules enforce a code of amateurism on student-athletes
Eitzen CH 7
Konrad Lorenz, a renowned ethnologist and spokesman for the _________________of aggression/violence
The social learning theory of aggression/violence
According to several sports authorities, the substance that athletes abuse more than any other substance is…
The mass media highlight and foster violence in sport by…
While steroid use is primarily prevalent among male athletes who are trying to bulk up, ________________afflict female athletes.
Your textbook authors suggest three factors that might contribute to the alarming trail of violence by athletes against women. They are…
An NCAA study of found that_______of sports-related eating disorders afflict women.
Eitzen CH 10
Which of the following typically creates the most capital gain for a
professional sports team owner?
Presently, about _____percent of professional sports stadiums and arenas
are owned by the franchise owners.
Compared to other top professional entertainers, professional teams sports
athletes salaries are…
Unregulated monopoly
In the sport structure of the
In general, the value of professional team sport franchises over the past
decade has…
The reserve clause in professional sports…
Eitzen CH 11
Primary sources of power for the mass media are
The first sports sections to become a regular feature of newspapers
appeared in the…
Sports is one arena in which the media’s reporting of events is…
The structures or processes of sport that was manipulated to enhance viewer
appeal and accommodate programming needs of media sport.
In 1995__________created the X-Games as a made-for-TV alternative sporting
event.
The current cutting edge in communications for sports consumers is…
According to our guest speaker, Sports Producer Matt Kingston, which is the most
influential factor as far as what gets on TV?
Which of the following sports’ video game was first?
Hockey Night in Canada
Tennis for Two
NBA
Basketball
John Madden Football