Deck 8: Sport Deviance

Question 1

Which of the following is FALSE with respect to "disabled" bodies and sport?

A)The Olympic Games are constructed as the real sports event and the Paralympic Games are constructed as a derivative of this real event.
B)"Disabled" bodies are deviantized in numerous ways.
C)The history of the Paralympic Games is a story about the agency of those people with disabilities who laid the foundation of the modern Paralympic movement.
D)The history of the modern Paralympic Games marginalizes,homogenizes,and pathologizes athletes with disabilities.

Answer 1

B

Question 2

When studying deviance and sport,you decide to look at the ways particular ideas about what constitutes deviance come to be and how these ideas are produced and enforced.This approach to the study of deviance is rooted in:

A)the work of Karl Marx and materialism
B)C)Wright Mills and his concept of "sociological imagination"
C)Talcott Parsons and his theory of complementary roles
D)George Herbert Mead's conception of the self

Answer 2

B

Question 3

Your professor notes that sport is a separate social world with its own allowable rule violations.She is likely discussing this notion within a lecture on which of the following topics?

A)objectivism
B)tolerable deviance
C)the functions of deviance
D)inherent deviance

Answer 3

B

Question 4

The tolerable deviance framework brings our attention to the idea that sport is constructed as a space in which deviance is:

A)accepted and even celebrated
B)stereotyped and challenged
C)viewed as inherently negative
D)only acceptable to sport organizations but not fans

Question 5

In his conception of the sociological imagination,C.Wright Mills stresses the importance of understanding:

A)ethnic relations
B)gender inequality
C)personal biography
D)individual perceptions

Question 6

The interactions,negotiations,and debates among groups with different perspectives of whether a behaviour or characteristic is deviant and needs to be socially controlled are ?referred to in the text as the:

A)sociological imagination
B)social destruction
C)deviance delight
D)deviant dance

Question 7

There are four central beliefs that define what it means to identify one's self as an athlete.Which of the following is not one of these four main beliefs?

A)accept risks
B)make sacrifices
C)accept criticism
D)strive for distinction

Question 8

Deviance:

A)is deviant in and of itself
B)is not affected by social and geographical locations
C)is not politically and ideologically neutral
D)is not affected by social control efforts

Question 9

You are explaining to your parents that the taking of steroids to enhance performance in your chosen sport is inherently deviant.As such,you are analyzing deviance from a/an _____ standpoint.

A)subjectivist
B)objectivist
C)psychological
D)pseudo-scientific

Question 10

The topic of _____ in sport has been,and still is,hotly contested and deeply politicized and ideological,according to the chapter on deviance in the text.

A)mandatory equipment
B)drugs
C)proper dress off the court,rink,etc.
D)public behaviour outside the game

Question 11

Which male 100-metre sprinter found his identity change in the media over the course of a few days from Jamaican to Canadian and back to Jamaican because he tested positive for steroids during the 1988 Summer Olympics?

A)Caster Semenya
B)Ben Johnson
C)Theoren Fleury
D)Lance Armstrong

Question 12

Perhaps the most notable example of the International Olympic Committee deviantizing women and policing gender boundaries is found in the practice of:

A)sex testing
B)steroid testing
C)using standardized body measurements
D)drug testing in general

Question 13

A central component of BASE ethics is the expectation:

A)that the media will be notified about any jump
B)that jumpers will notify local jumpers when visiting an area
C)that jumping in your local area will be posted online for jumpers outside the area
D)that visiting jumpers will only jump with someone local to the area

Question 14

Your classmate argues that deviance is not a thing to be explained but rather is an outcome of a social process informed by power and involves negotiation and contestation.You classmate is most likely a/an:

A)objectivist
B)psychology major
C)subjectivist
D)Marxist

Question 15

In the early twentieth century,the International Olympic Committee excluded women from certain Olympic events arguing that,in particular,their _____ would be irreparably harmed by such vigorous activity.

A)upper body
B)legs and arms
C)breasts and brains
D)reproductive functions

Question 16

Colour-blindness furnishes acceptable ways to:

A)prevent women from engaging in some sports
B)reject race-sensitive equity policies
C)promote diversity on sport teams
D)encourage ethnic equality in children's sports

Question 17

The most used and abused drug in sport is:

A)alcohol
B)steroids
C)EPO
D)HGH

Question 18

To argue that there is nothing that is inherently deviant in sport in or in society is to approach your analysis from a/an _____ standpoint.

A)subjectivist
B)objectivist
C)psychological
D)pseudo-scientific

Question 19

A good example of formal social control in sport would be:

A)a penalty for high sticking in hockey
B)fans booing the opposing team in basketball
C)a team player being told to wear a suit and tie to travel to games
D)one fan throwing their hat onto the court or ice in the middle of a game

Question 20

_____ are sometimes complicit in the construction of moral panics as part of the process of orchestrating or manufacturing hegemony.

A)Athletes
B)Fans
C)Coaches
D)Elites

Question 21

Considering deviance as relational and as an outcome of a process allows us to:

A)explain sport phenomena in ways we never could before we used this method
B)delve into how unequal social relations are produced and maintained
C)leave aside the role of power in our study of sport
D)underscore our analysis of team sport and the use of drugs

Question 22

Which of the following particular field of activities are often constructed as deviant and yet heralded?

A)team sports
B)individual sports
C)risk sports
D)women's sports

Question 23

Performance enhancing substances are defined as:

A)only those that heighten physiological capacities
B)those drugs that aid in the reduction of anxiety and heighten physiological capacities
C)only refer to those drugs that reduce anxiety
D)any unnatural substance that positively or negatively affects an athlete's performance

Question 24

Who is more likely to be deviantized for engaging in risk sports?

A)Men
B)Women
C)Both genders would be equally deviantized.

Question 25

The example presented in the text about the Canadian women's hockey team during the Vancouver Olympics in 2010 demonstrates quite clearly that deviance is:

A)inherently negative
B)relative
C)sometimes positive
D)functional for sport

Question 26

How did the Canadian women's hockey team "tarnish the reputation of women's hockey" ?at the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver?

A)Several members of the team failed their drug tests.
B)Two members of the team failed their sex testing.
C)They lost the gold medal game.
D)They were drinking alcohol and smoking cigars after the game.