Deck 9: Sporting Life

Question 1

With reference to sports, a person's habitus, according to Bourdieu, influences:

A) How naturally gifted they are at playing sports
B) Their disposition towards playing some sports rather than others
C) An antipathy to all sports
D) Their aggressiveness towards other players

Answer 1

B

Question 2

Cheating is to be expected in sports because:

A) Only dishonest people play sports
B) Sports players are mostly on average incomes and have to cheat to ensure their futures
C) Players always want to win games
D) Cheating is commonplace in acquisitive capitalist societies

Answer 2

D

Question 3

The use of sports by lower class people to achieve upward social mobility:

A) Is commonly done by athletically gifted but economically poor people
B) Is dependent on the cultural attributes of the athletes
C) Is very rare and achieved only by exceptionally gifted athletes
D) Is blocked by people higher on the socio-economic scale than themselves

Answer 3

C

Question 4

The marked over-representation of runners of West African ancestry in sprinting is explained sociologically by:

A) Racism restricting their chances of success in other occupations
B) An inherent genetic advantage
C) The continuing successes of black sprinters, which encourages emulation
D) Both (a) and (c)

Question 5

Big businesses sponsor sports and advertise at sporting events because:

A) Television coverage of sports provides exposure of the businesses' products to large viewing audiences
B) The businesses produce sports equipment
C) Company executives like sports and want to support them
D) To reduce their tax liabilities

Question 6

People become sports fans mostly because:

A) They would have nothing else to do if they did not follow sports
B) They are former players
C) They were introduced to a sport by significant other(s)
D) It enables them to 'let off steam'

Question 7

'Medal tables' commonly are associated with:

A) The AFL and NRL grand finals
B) 'Mega-events'
C) Most valuable player awards
D) Successful sporting nations

Question 8

Women's involvement with sports as players:

A) Now matches that of men
B) Receives as much media coverage as that of men
C) Means that they commonly earn as much as men from professional sports
D) Remains significantly marginalized

Question 9

The sport people play and/or follows largely depends on:

A) What they want to play
B) What they are told to play
C) Playing sports from which they are not excluded
D) Their social, economic and cultural background

Question 10

Sports are:

A) Intricately entwined with the social and economic processes of the society in which they are found
B) Discrete activities that have no necessary connections with other aspects of the society
C) Just played and enjoyed
D) A form of play