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% of people living in poverty in US - .......🔷ANSWERS🔶......✔✔ 14%
% of people living paycheck to paycheck - .......🔷ANSWERS🔶......✔✔ 80%
Be familiar with the idea of conspicuous consumption, what it means, and who developed the idea
(lecture and textbook) - .......🔷ANSWERS🔶......✔✔ Participation in certain sports was used as a sign of
status among the wealthy
Outward expression of social class
Also expressed through manners, gait, and good form. These become part of the body -- see cultural
capital Bourdieu
Thorstein Veblen
Know facts about Title IX including when it was passed, what efforts have been attempted by universities
to circumvent (cheat) the law (mostly lecture and some in textbook.) - .......🔷ANSWERS🔶......✔✔
Passed in 1972
How universities circumvent the law
Sports like rowing
Be familiar with the data source that Wells and Darnell use to analyze reactions to their primary subject.
- .......🔷ANSWERS🔶......✔✔ Subject is Caster Semenya
Data source = TN Listserv
Offers insights into sex testing as understood by those with a clear stake in, and some influence over,
track & field, as opposed to the general public
As presented in lecture, what is meant by the term "policing the boundaries of masculinity"? Be able to
provide at least one example - .......🔷ANSWERS🔶......✔✔ Jim Rome article:
, ~20% of content relates to social issues
Much of the conversation reinforces dominant gender ideologies and the "naturalness" of
heterosexuality
Many callers seem to seek homosocial approval and reactions to sexuality-related topics serve as
boundary work
Anxiety about changes in men's and women's work and fear of feminization (masculinity under threat)
Be familiar with Moses Fleetwood Walker and his significance in United States sport history (lecture)
- .......🔷ANSWERS🔶......✔✔ First black MLB player
Toledo Blue Stockings
Be familiar with colorblind racism and some of its tenets and frames (lecture and textbook)
- .......🔷ANSWERS🔶......✔✔ Whites have developed powerful explanations for contemporary racial
inequality that exculpates them from any responsibility for the status of people of color
From lecture, be able to relate Foucault's ideas about surveillance and panopticism to sports
- .......🔷ANSWERS🔶......✔✔ Believes that surveillance is a key aspect of modern society
Panopticism - guard tower in center of prison à reminder that someone is always watching
Docile bodies - controlled, healthy, and regulated bodies whose training extends their capacity and
usefulness
Recognize how Taylorism (scientific management) pertains to sport (lecture)
- .......🔷ANSWERS🔶......✔✔ focusing on all small benchmarks, measurements in order to maximize
potential
sportification - .......🔷ANSWERS🔶......✔✔ process of transforming play to work