BSM 205 - Test #2 True & False

Informal games are organized to maximize to keep alive the spirit of play.

True

Boys and men are more likely to push and break through gender boundaries because they have more social power than girls and women

False

Caster Semenya, a young woman from rural South Africa, forced the IOC and other major sport organizations to drop their commitment to the two-sex classification system

False

Children seek out alternative sports because of the joy they have experienced in structured, adult-controlled sport programs.

False

Commercialization and greed are the primary causes of violence in contact sports.

False

Date shows that the proportion of women coaches for the most popular intercollegiate ports were significantly higher in 2013 than they were in 1977

False

Developmental research indicates that creating excellent athletes requires that children be put in highly organized and specialized programs as young as possible.

False

Deviant overconformity in sports is most effectively controlled by helping athletes to learn how and when to set limits as they play sport

False

Deviant underconformity is dangerous because, in extreme cases, it is associated with fascism in society.

False

Former NFL player and their families sued the NFL in 2012 because the league forced players to engage in violence on the field of play.

False

Girls have more equal access to informal and alternative sports than they do to organized sports in schools

False

Hybrid games, according to the author, are invented by players when they combine equipment from two or more sports.

False

In this chapter, the author uses an absolutist approach to discuss and explain deviance in sports.

False

Informal, player-controlled games are more common today than they were one or two generations ago.

False

Information on Title IX indicates that government legislation cannot lead to real changes in people's lives

False

Institutional corruption occurs in sports primarily when athletes do not understand the rules of their sports federations.

False

One of the four specific problems faced when studying deviance in sports is that there are rules that prohibit arresting athletes in some communities.

False

Post-game frustration riots are much more common in North America than post-game celebratory riots

False

Project Play, developed by Tm Farrey of ESPN, has focused on recreating youth sports to focus more on individual children rather than serving the common good.

False

Rates of violence in sports today are nearly double what they have been at any other time in history.

False

Research proves that as the amount of contact increases in a sport, the athletes in that sport are more likely to engage in violent actions off the field.

False

Research shows that boys and men who play power and performance sports learn that brutal body contact should be avoided so they can stay healthy and keep playing.

False

Research shows that drug testing has become so efficient and widely accepted in recent years that drug and substance use among athletes has declined significantly.

False

Research shows that rates of both on-the-field and off-the-field deviance are out of control in the United States because athletes today lack character and are motivated entirely by greed.

False

Research shows that women have natural impulses that prevent them from engaging in violent sports.

False

Since 1990 there has been more deadly terrorist acts at sport event than in other contexts.

False

Spectators at Major League Baseball games today are much more violent than the spectators who attended baseball games in the early part of the last century when people were civil and respectful of others.

False

The Sport Ethic only becomes a source of deviance in sports when athletes begin to make up their own rules.Hubris is a form of pride-driven arrogance that often characterizes groups in which deviant overconformity is common.

False

The best youth sport programs are the ones organized to be different than the games that children play on their own

False

The growth of organized youth sports since the 1950s has been influenced more by television than by changes in family life.

False

When a panel of experts developed· a Youth Sports National Report Card for the United States, they gave Ds and Fs to all aspects of existing programs

False

aggression and violence both refer to actions that violate laws designed to protect the security of people and their position

False

gambling on sports is mostly a U.S problems because other societies have well-accepted norms that discourage wagering on all human activities.

False

An emphasis on the performance ethic is most likely to be found in private commercial clubs where membership and participation fees are costly

True

Athletes may be marginalized or punished in their sports and by fellow athletes if they engage in quasi-criminal or criminal violence.

True

Gay men and lesbians in sports may be ignored, marginalized, or harassed because they challenge the ideological foundation upon which definitions of gender are based.

True

Hubris is a form of pride-driven arrogance that often characterizes groups in which deviant overconformity is common.

True

Privatized youth sports programs reproduce the economic and ethnic inequalities that exist in the larger society.

True

Research shows that spectator violence is associated with perceived violence on the field of play.

True

Studying deviance in sports presents unique problems partly because many of the actions accepted in sports may be considered to be deviant outside sports.

True

The author concludes that the use of performance-enhancing substances is consistent with the culture of power and performance sports today.

True

The full achievement of gender equity in sports ultimately depends on changing and diversifying the way we "do" sports in society

True

The task of reinventing or changing youth sports is difficult because so many adults benefit from the ways they are currently organized.

True

U.S. parents have become increasingly concerned about the sport participation of their children because parental moral worth depends on effectively controlling their children 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

True

When male athletes engage in physical assaults, they are most likely to target people who they define as unworthy of their respect.

True

a constructionist approach to deviance in sports emphasizes that people create norms and identify what they will and won't define as acceptable actions.

True

a two category gender classification model is preserved in society only to the extent that people perform gender in a way that fits the model

True