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Question 1: - DEVIANCE IN SPORTS

• Define deviance and identify challenges faced when studying deviance in sports.
• Explain the absolutist and constructionist approaches to deviance in sports.
• Define the sport ethic, and identify the norms of the sport ethic.
• Distinguish between deviant over-conformity and deviant under-conformity.
• Identify the athletes most likely to overconform to the norms of the sport ethic.
• Explain why performance-enhancing substance use is so prevalent among athletes today.
• Long Answer Option - Slide 13: Tyler Hamilton - Video from Blackboard - Concept of Shared Deviance

Question 2:- GENDER AND SPORTS

• Describe the two-sex classification system, and explain how it impacts the meaning and organization of sports as well as who participates in sports.
• Explain how orthodox gender ideology has influenced sports and how sports have influenced gender ideology.
• Identify reasons for the dramatic increase in sports participation rates among women of all ages since the mid-1970s.
• Identify existing gender inequities in sports and the barriers faced when trying to achieve equity.
• Understand what it means to say that sports and sports organizations today are male-dominated, male-identified, and male-centered.
• Long Answer Option - Slide 15: Article on women's professional soccer in England - slide 25, support categories where inequities may exist for women's sports

Question 3:- RACE AND ETHNICITY

• Understand the concepts of race, ethnicity, and minority group, and distinguish between them.
• Explain why race is a social construction and how racial categories are based on social meanings rather than a valid biological classification system.
• Explain how and why race and racial ideology have been linked with sports in the United States.
• Explain the author's sociological explanation of the relationship between skin color and athletic performance.
• Identify the major challenges related to race and ethnic relations in sports today, and explain how they are different from the challenges faced throughout most of the twentieth century. Do Sports Build Character?
• Long Answer Option - Slide 19: A sociological explanation of the achievements of black male athletes.

Question 4:- SPORTS AND THE ECONOMY

• Identify the conditions under which commercial sports emerge and grow in a society.
• Identify economic and ideological reasons why sports have become so popular in society today.
• Explain how the corporate branding of sports is related to the establishment of ideological outposts around the world today. Chapter 5 - DEVIANCE IN SPORTS
• Define deviance and identify challenges faced when studying deviance in sports.
• Explain the absolutist and constructionist approaches to deviance in sports.
• Define the sport ethic, and identify the norms of the sport ethic.
• Distinguish between deviant over-conformity and deviant under-conformity.
• Identify the athletes most likely to overconform to the norms of the sport ethic.
• Explain why performance-enhancing substance use is so prevalent among athletes today.
• Long Answer Option - Slide 13: Tyler Hamilton - Video from Blackboard - Concept of Shared Deviance

Question 5:- GENDER AND SPORTS

• Describe the two-sex classification system, and explain how it impacts the meaning and organization of sports as well as who participates in sports.
• Explain how orthodox gender ideology has influenced sports and how sports have influenced gender ideology.
• Identify reasons for the dramatic increase in sports participation rates among women of all ages since the mid-1970s.
• Identify existing gender inequities in sports and the barriers faced when trying to achieve equity.
• Understand what it means to say that sports and sports organizations today are male-dominated, male-identified, and male-centered.
• Long Answer Option - Slide 15: Article on women's professional soccer in England - slide 25, support categories where inequities may exist for women's sports

Question 6:- RACE AND ETHNICITY

• Understand the concepts of race, ethnicity, and minority group, and distinguish between them.
• Explain why race is a social construction and how racial categories are based on social meanings rather than a valid biological classification system.
• Explain how and why race and racial ideology have been linked with sports in the United States.
• Explain the author's sociological explanation of the relationship between skin color and athletic performance.
• Identify the major challenges related to race and ethnic relations in sports today, and explain how they are different from the challenges faced throughout most of the twentieth century. Do Sports Build Character?
• Long Answer Option - Slide 19: A sociological explanation of the achievements of black male athletes.

Question 7:- SPORTS AND THE ECONOMY

• Identify the conditions under which commercial sports emerge and grow in a society.
• Identify economic and ideological reasons why sports have become so popular in society today.
• Explain how the corporate branding of sports is related to the establishment of ideological outposts around the world today.
• Discuss how commercialization affects the rules, culture, and organization of sports.
• Distinguish differences between aesthetic orientations and heroic orientations, and explain how they are influenced by the commercialization of sports.
• Long Answer Option - Slide 11: Commercialization Changes Sports, Slide 12 - Changes in Structure and Goals.

Question 8:- MEDIA AND SPORTS

• Identify the major forms of media, what they provide to people, and the influence of commercial forces on media content.
• Discuss whether and how new media, including the Internet, change sport spectator experiences.
• Know the characteristics of fantasy sports, sports video games, and esports and explain how they change the sport-media landscape
• Identify factors that influence the images and narratives presented in the media.
• Discuss how sports and the media depend on each other for commercial success.
• Identify major trends in televised sports and media rights fees.
• Identify economic and ideological factors that influence relationships between sports and the media.
• Discuss how commercialization affects the rules, culture, and organization of sports.
• Distinguish differences between aesthetic orientations and heroic orientations, and explain how they are influenced by the commercialization of sports.
• Long Answer Option - Slide 11: Commercialization Changes Sports, Slide 12 - Changes in Structure and Goals.

Question 9:- MEDIA AND SPORTS

• Identify the major forms of media, what they provide to people, and the influence of commercial forces on media content.
• Discuss whether and how new media, including the Internet, change sport spectator experiences.
• Know the characteristics of fantasy sports, sports video games, and esports and explain how they change the sport-media landscape
• Identify factors that influence the images and narratives presented in the media.
• Discuss how sports and the media depend on each other for commercial success.
• Identify major trends in televised sports and media rights fees.
• Identify economic and ideological factors that influence relationships between sports and the media.