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SPMA 2P06 Quiz 1 Questions and Answers
(Expert Solutions)
Q: Policy
ANS 🗹🗹: a law regulation, procedure, administration, action, incentive, or
voluntary practice of governments and other institutions
Q: How is policy reflected
ANS 🗹🗹: -resource allocation
-the ways we spend money (advocating for spending in certain ways)
Q: sport policy
ANS 🗹🗹: -an outline of the direction a sport should take, according to makers of a
policy
-developed by governments and sport organizations to guide sport in a direction
-policies around sports can impact the governance of the organization that creates
them
Q: policy is akin to:
ANS 🗹🗹: STRATEGY
Q: policy in public vs private sectors
ANS 🗹🗹: public: policy
private: strategy
Q: study of sport policy
ANS 🗹🗹: the study of sport policy is the study of both latent (hidden) and overt
(apparent) forms of CONFLICT
Q: policy and conflict
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ANS 🗹🗹: -making policy creates conflict as not everyone will agree
-policy is made to deal with conflict
Q: Amateurism
ANS 🗹🗹: -definition was hard to pinpoint
-clubs appeared in Montreal making strict policies for their membership
-in late 1800s an amateur was defined as someone who never competed for money,
with professionals, or was an Indian or laborer
-not about promoting sport but of restrictions
Q: exclusionary sport
ANS 🗹🗹: -sports were allowed to refuse the entry of undesirable groups
-used race, class, gender to exclude people from sport (only wanted "gentlemen"
participating)
Q: Tom Longboat
ANS 🗹🗹: -won 1907 boston marathon
-was supposed to go to the olympics but lost his amateur status due to conflicting
policy on the term
Q: organized sport before 1850s
ANS 🗹🗹: -enclave of the elite
-early sport was not about the game but about excluding those who did not fit the
gentlemen ideal
-eg. montreal curling clubs motto was how social the game, and how manly" and
also did not have rule for the sport but only policy on when, how to eat, and # of
members
Q: Montreal lacrosse club
SPMA 2P06 Quiz 1 Questions and Answers
(Expert Solutions)
Q: Policy
ANS 🗹🗹: a law regulation, procedure, administration, action, incentive, or
voluntary practice of governments and other institutions
Q: How is policy reflected
ANS 🗹🗹: -resource allocation
-the ways we spend money (advocating for spending in certain ways)
Q: sport policy
ANS 🗹🗹: -an outline of the direction a sport should take, according to makers of a
policy
-developed by governments and sport organizations to guide sport in a direction
-policies around sports can impact the governance of the organization that creates
them
Q: policy is akin to:
ANS 🗹🗹: STRATEGY
Q: policy in public vs private sectors
ANS 🗹🗹: public: policy
private: strategy
Q: study of sport policy
ANS 🗹🗹: the study of sport policy is the study of both latent (hidden) and overt
(apparent) forms of CONFLICT
Q: policy and conflict
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ANS 🗹🗹: -making policy creates conflict as not everyone will agree
-policy is made to deal with conflict
Q: Amateurism
ANS 🗹🗹: -definition was hard to pinpoint
-clubs appeared in Montreal making strict policies for their membership
-in late 1800s an amateur was defined as someone who never competed for money,
with professionals, or was an Indian or laborer
-not about promoting sport but of restrictions
Q: exclusionary sport
ANS 🗹🗹: -sports were allowed to refuse the entry of undesirable groups
-used race, class, gender to exclude people from sport (only wanted "gentlemen"
participating)
Q: Tom Longboat
ANS 🗹🗹: -won 1907 boston marathon
-was supposed to go to the olympics but lost his amateur status due to conflicting
policy on the term
Q: organized sport before 1850s
ANS 🗹🗹: -enclave of the elite
-early sport was not about the game but about excluding those who did not fit the
gentlemen ideal
-eg. montreal curling clubs motto was how social the game, and how manly" and
also did not have rule for the sport but only policy on when, how to eat, and # of
members
Q: Montreal lacrosse club
