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Title: Definition
1. Sport sociology examines which of the following?
a. behavior of specific individuals
b. social patterns of individuals
*c. organizations of groups
d. structures of individuals
Type: F
Title: Benefits
2. A society’s dominant values, attitudes, and beliefs are passed from generation to generation
through a process known as ____________________.
a. socialization
Type: F
Title: Benefits
3. Sport serves as a ______________, bringing people together as sport cuts across social
categories such as race and class.
a. unifier
Type: E
Title: Dark Side
4. What four aspects of sport are characterized as troubling?
a. sexism, racism, homophobia, and heterosexism
Title: Dark Side
5. Since the passage of Title IX, the number of female coaches of women’s teams has decreased.
*a. true
b. false
Type: F
Title: Benefits
6. Sport has the potential to contribute to the positive development and stability of both
______________ and ___________ as a whole.
a. individuals; society
Type: E
Title: Dark Side
7. Media coverage of female athletes differs from media coverage of male athletes in two ways.
Name one of them.
a. amount of coverage
b. type of coverage
Type: F
Title: Dark Side
8. Steering minority groups into or away from certain power positions in sport is called
_______________________.
a. stacking
Type: E
Title: Social Transformation
9. In the early 1990s, what did Magic Johnson do that led to a transformation?
a. acknowledged he was HIV positive
Title: Dark Side
10. How do young children learn to think and behave in accordance with the multiplicity of
social roles available to them?
*a. role learning
b. collective social learning
c. hypothetical situations
d. social deviance
Title: Benefits
11. In bringing people together by giving them a sense of personal identity, group membership,
and social identification, sport serves as a ____________.
a. bright side of life
b. collector of people
*c. unifier of people
d. leader of people
Title: Dark Side
12. Before Title IX, most administrators and coaches of women’s intercollegiate sports teams
were
a. former athletes
b. team members
c. men
*d. women
Title: Dark Side
13. The irrational fear or intolerance of homosexuality, gay men, or lesbians is called
a. hemophilia
b. homogeneity
*c. homophobia
d. homomania
Title: Dark Side
14. Steering minority players away from the quarterback position is a form of
a. strutting
*b. stacking
c. stomping
d. strapping
Title: Transformation
15. In 2005, which famous professional female athlete came out publicly as a lesbian?
a. Serena Williams
*b. Sheryl Swoopes
c. Michelle Wie
d. Mia Hamm
Type: E
Title: Dark Side
16. Explain what research has shown in terms of the amount of coverage afforded to male and
female athletes.
a. Males receive significantly more coverage than their female counterparts.
b. Females receive significantly less coverage than their male counterparts.
Type: E
Title: Definition
17. According to Coakley, what is sport sociology?
a. the subdiscipline of sociology that studies sport as social phenomena
Type: E
Title: Dark Side
18. Explain role learning as a major component of the socialization process.
a. Young children learn to think and behave in accordance with the various social roles available
to them.
Type: E
Title: Benefits
19. Define socialization.
a. the process by which people learn and develop through social interactions and come to know
the environment around them.
Type: E
Title: Dark Side
20. Before Title IX 300,000 females participated in interscholastic sports nationwide. What has
that number now reached?
a. more than 3 million
Type: F
Title: Dark Side
21. ______________ refers to an arbitrary attributional pattern of athletic success in which Black
athletes’ successes are attributed to “natural” athletic abilities and genetic advantages, and White
athletes achieve excellence because of their discipline, intelligence, and hard work.
a. Race logic
Type: E
Title: Dark Side
22. Why does it matter that fewer women hold leadership positions?
a. Coaches can and do serve as mentors and role models; therefore, females who are coached by
women will be more likely to be interested in entering the coaching profession.
Type: E
Title: Dark Side
23. Briefly explain the term stacking.
a. It is a disproportionate allocation of athletes to central (e.g., “thinking positions”) and
noncentral positions as a function of their race or ethnicity.
Type: E
Title: Dark Side
24. Explain what is meant by heterosexism.
a. an ideology and a behavior that promote privilege for dominant groups (i.e., heterosexuals are
the norm and therefore “better than” homosexuals).
Type: E
Title: Dark Side
25. What is the real “problem” of gays in sport?
a. the presence of homophobia
Type: F
Title: Dark Side
26. A commonly held belief that African American athletes owe their success to their ________
abilities suggests that they have some genetic advantage over ________ when it comes to
achievement in sports.
a. natural; Whites
Type: E
Title: Dark Side
27. Define homophobia.
a. an irrational fear, a contempt, or an antipathy toward homosexuals and homosexuality
Type: E
Title: Dark Side
28. What are gender roles?
a. a set of perceived behavioral norms, associated particularly with males or females, in a given
social group or system.
Type: E
Title: Dark Side
29. In what four areas have sport sociologists identified racial myths and prejudices about
African Americans and other ethnic minorities in sport?
a. assumptions about race and athletic ability; sport leadership; sport media coverage; the role of
sport in racially-connected upward mobility
Type: E
Title: Implications
30. Why is it important for sport managers to know about people?
a. Knowing about people is critical to success in sport management because the sport manager
must understand the social context of sport and the meaning attached to that context in order to
get people involved with and stay committed to a certain activity.