HP 290 Exam 3 Final Question and
answers 100% correct 2025/2026
Functionalism - correct answer ✔Social order is based on consensus and shared social values
Conflict - correct answer ✔Social order is based on economic interest. Social class shapes social
structures and relationships; sports reinforces the status quo power structure
Hegemony - correct answer ✔• a critical theory; analyzes political, economic, cultural patterns
o - asserts that dominant groups "rule" these patterns
o -conditions in sport can change top down or bottom up
Critical Race Theory - correct answer ✔• social life is full of diversity, complexities, and contradictions
o Goal to analyze, deconstruct, and transform society to improve relationships among race, racism, and
power
o Whose voices are/are not represented in sport (consider various levels of sport)
Feminist - correct answer ✔• Belief: social order based primarily on the values and interests of men
with power
o Human experiences are gendered
o Patriarchal society undervalues women/female virtues
o GOAL: objectively analyzes the current status of women in society
Interactionist - correct answer ✔• social construction of reality, people attach meaning to race,
symbols, differences, etc. taught and develop these meanings (media coverage of only male sports can
teach society to undervalue female sports)
o Weakness can overlook factors other than gender
, Sport - correct answer ✔Purposeful activity; physical or mental effort needed to perform a task, often
traded for compensation, professional athletes are paid to play sport (play in the sport pyramind)
-o Must involve a physical component (movement), competitive (outcomes are important-winning and
losing motivates players), involves institutionalized games (governed by outside groups)
o def:•Institutionalized competitive activity that involves physical skill and specialized facilities or
equipment and is conducted according to an accepted set of rules to determine a winner.
Sport Pyramid - correct answer ✔Work, sport, games, play (pros are paid to play the sport)
The components of Sport - correct answer ✔• Physical activity, competitive activity, and
institutionalized activity, and an activity played for personal enjoyment and external reward
Sociology - correct answer ✔the scientific discipline that describes and explains human social
organization
-The study of a society, its institutions, and its relationships
-Relies on systematic study of the development, structure, interaction and collective behavior of a
group of human beings
Interests of Sociology - correct answer ✔Emerging patterns of interaction over time, Order of social life,
and Principles used to explain human activity
The assumptions of sociology - correct answer ✔We are social beings
Infant dependence; cooperative advantage
We are mostly socially determined
Learning through education, observation, mimicry, interaction, etc.
We create, sustain, and change social forms
Momentum; imperfection; human agency
answers 100% correct 2025/2026
Functionalism - correct answer ✔Social order is based on consensus and shared social values
Conflict - correct answer ✔Social order is based on economic interest. Social class shapes social
structures and relationships; sports reinforces the status quo power structure
Hegemony - correct answer ✔• a critical theory; analyzes political, economic, cultural patterns
o - asserts that dominant groups "rule" these patterns
o -conditions in sport can change top down or bottom up
Critical Race Theory - correct answer ✔• social life is full of diversity, complexities, and contradictions
o Goal to analyze, deconstruct, and transform society to improve relationships among race, racism, and
power
o Whose voices are/are not represented in sport (consider various levels of sport)
Feminist - correct answer ✔• Belief: social order based primarily on the values and interests of men
with power
o Human experiences are gendered
o Patriarchal society undervalues women/female virtues
o GOAL: objectively analyzes the current status of women in society
Interactionist - correct answer ✔• social construction of reality, people attach meaning to race,
symbols, differences, etc. taught and develop these meanings (media coverage of only male sports can
teach society to undervalue female sports)
o Weakness can overlook factors other than gender
, Sport - correct answer ✔Purposeful activity; physical or mental effort needed to perform a task, often
traded for compensation, professional athletes are paid to play sport (play in the sport pyramind)
-o Must involve a physical component (movement), competitive (outcomes are important-winning and
losing motivates players), involves institutionalized games (governed by outside groups)
o def:•Institutionalized competitive activity that involves physical skill and specialized facilities or
equipment and is conducted according to an accepted set of rules to determine a winner.
Sport Pyramid - correct answer ✔Work, sport, games, play (pros are paid to play the sport)
The components of Sport - correct answer ✔• Physical activity, competitive activity, and
institutionalized activity, and an activity played for personal enjoyment and external reward
Sociology - correct answer ✔the scientific discipline that describes and explains human social
organization
-The study of a society, its institutions, and its relationships
-Relies on systematic study of the development, structure, interaction and collective behavior of a
group of human beings
Interests of Sociology - correct answer ✔Emerging patterns of interaction over time, Order of social life,
and Principles used to explain human activity
The assumptions of sociology - correct answer ✔We are social beings
Infant dependence; cooperative advantage
We are mostly socially determined
Learning through education, observation, mimicry, interaction, etc.
We create, sustain, and change social forms
Momentum; imperfection; human agency
