SPMT GENDER ISSUES
What did Tim Hardaway say about John Amaechi?
"I hate gays"
What is the athlete oath for the special olympics?
"Let me win, but if i cannot win, let me be brave in the attempt"
The cost for a family of 4 to attend an NFL game is about? MLB? NBA?
$400, $200, $300
The average annual compensation for local television sport anchors is?
$50,000
What are key characteristics to sports?
1. Physical Component 2. Competition 3. institutionalized Games 4. Specialized Facilities and Equipment
Adult-Organized sports are primarily concerned with teaching kids the following?
1. Skills of the games 2. Rules of the game 3. Proper playing of positions 4. obedience to adult directions, strategy, and training methods.
What could women not do in victorian times?
1. women couldn't vote 2. women couldn't own property 3. women couldn't file a lawsuit
it is estimated that 1 in ____ of the population is gay?
10
For D1 schools without football, what percent of men's basketball programs generate net revenue?
10%
Most youth sport programs attract large numbers of children between the ages of 6 and 8. More than half of them drop out of sports by the age of?
14
What was the name of the girl that was the national idea of feminine beauty?
1890's; Gibson Girl
In spite of the steady growth in women sports, the percentage of females employed by both the electronic and print media is?
20%
Compared to African Americans who make up approximately 10%, latinos make up approximately what percent?
27%
How many divisions are there in intercollegiate sports?
3 divisions
When basketball first began for women the court was divided into how many zones?
3 zones
The percentage of female competitors in the 2008 summer Olympics was?
42%
what percent of adults do not engage in sufficient levels of physical activity?
60%
In spite of the popularity gains by women sports in recent years, the percentage of sport news coverage that focuses on men is?
96%
What was formed in 1971 that was instrumental in getting Title IX passed?
AIAW
Amateur Sports Act of 1978
Act of the U.S. Congress that established the United States Olympic Committee (USOC) and outlined its responsibilities
When 10-year-old African Americans were asked about their favorite role models, no child picked?
An education
Who was the first women who circumnavigated the globe in 15 months on a 42 lb bicylce?
Annie Londonderry
Which is not true?
Athletes exhibit better moral behavioral than non-athletes
In the second half of the 20th century who was considered the top female athlete?
Babe Didrikson Zaharias
Who had the greatest effect on womens sports in our time both during and after her playing career?
Billie Jean King
What is the name of the modified pants women wore in the early 1900's
Bloomers
Which is not a part of the three-prong test?
Budget expense test
which country won the most gold medals at the 2008 Beijing Olympic games?
China
Players and spectators, who engage in heckling and taunting opposing players are operating at the?
Conventional Level
Football players who hold the opposing players illegally to gain an advantage rationalize their actions by explaining that everyone does it and you just have to try not to let the officials see it. According to Kohlberg's levels of moral reasoning, these players are operating at the level of?
Conventional good boy or good girl
One of the unintended effects of Title IX has been
Dropping some men's sports in schools and colleges to ensure equal funding for both genders
Which is not one of the 9 core values of the 1st tee golf organization?
Drug avoidance
When was the All-American girl's professional baseball league played?
During WWII
Which social issue is typically not discussed by the sport media?
Encourage people to be more physically active
Who started the special olympics?
Eunis Striver
Participation sports are those that are played for?
Exercise and Enjoyment
The most rapid increase in sports participation in by youth has been in?
Extreme Sports
A likely change in sport in north America will be the rising popularity of soccer?
False
A presentation of games on television has not affected attendance in the stadium?
False
Race and ethnicity are the same characteristic?
False
Title IX requires equal dollars to be spent on men and women's sports?
False
We can no longer say that women are under-represented in sport journalism?
False
The sport that makes Title IX difficult to comply is?
Football
What are the benefits of sport?
Fun, Better health, social integration, moral development, personal development of self-esteem and self-efficacy, cognitive development
At risk prevention program founded in 1995 by a small group of women in Chicago to ensure that girls were exposed to participation in sports
Girls in the game
Who gained fame in the 1920's as a remarkable amateur golfer?
Glena Collett Vare
Sports have been an important part of culture in virtually every civilization beginning with the
Greeks
Poor sporting behavior is more likely to occur in?
High performance sports in youth
Who created the prototype for the sports bra?
Hinda Miller and Lisa Lindahl
What does the media call spectators that do not attend an event?
Indirect Spectator
The baseball player who broke the color barrier in the late 1940's in major league baseball was?
Jackie Robinson
Conventional
Level attained by most adults 1. good boy or good girl 2. law and order
If a school is not compliant with Title IX the consequence is?
Loss of federal funds
Who were not allowed in the gym during the first intercollegiate basketball game?
Men
___ means a miniature model?
Microcosm
Post-conventional
Most of us do not reach this stage 1. social contract 2. principled conscience
It wasn't until the mid-1800's that women even ventured into physical activity programs founded at colleges such as _____ and ______?
Mount Holyoke and Vassar
A philosophy that made exercise and fitness compatible with Christian life was called?
Muscular Christianity
Administration of collegiate sports?
NCAA?
Americans consider themselves fans of what sport more than any other?
NFL
An international non-profit organization that involves independent outdoor education for high-risk kids?
Outward Bound
NBC bid how much to broadcast the 2012 London Olympic games?
Over 1 billion dollars
Title IX
Passed in 1972, gave women and even playing field in both sports and education
Title IX is sometimes called the?
Patsy Minks Law
Which of the following organizations provides programming and funding for at-risk youth in sport settings?
Police Athletic League
Athletes at any level who take performance enhancing substances are operating at what level of moral behavior
Pre-conventional pleasure or pain
Americans with Disabilities Act
President George H.W. Bush
President ____ tried to make Title IX stronger in support of tougher compliance rules?
President Obama
What assertion is most accurate about gender differences in American sport spectating?
Professional baseball is in the top 5 for men and women
The _____ test means the proportion on sports teams is similar to the proportion of enrolled as full-time undergraduate students?
Proportionality
The 2 most popular sports worldwide for both playing and watching combined are?
Soccer and Cricket
What do we call the concept that men had a limited amount of sperm?
Spermatic Economic Theory
Running backs, wide receivers, and outfielders are mainly African American. This is an example of?
Stacking
What is the administration of high school sports?
State associations
All African Americans have rhythm is an example of a?
Stereotype
Other than during the Olympic games every 4 years, the dominant sport shown on television for women is?
Tennis
Which national sport organization is associated with developing the first program to expose at-risk youth to sport rather than focus solely on elite level athletic development?
Tennis
The U.S. Olympic committee was created as the coordinating body for all Olympic-related athletic actives by?
The Amateur Sports Act of 1978
What was Susan B Anthony talking about when she said, "I think it has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world."
The Bicycle
What is the nations largest newspaper?
The USA today
Pre-conventional
The base of moral reasoning 1. punishment and obedience 2. pleasure or pain
which of the these are not a viable solution for the use of performance enhancing drugs are the Olympic games?
The three strike Rule
What is the name of the test for compliance of Title IX?
Three-Pronged Test
Trends in high school sports?
Title IX
70% of hate crimes committed by youth are towards homosexuals?
True
Changes in sport participation available to girls and women before 1 in 27 now 1 in 3?
True
Females are the majority in colleges?
True
Good character tends to be based on the ideals espoused by the founders and the puritan work ethic?
True
In the 1950s TV started broadcasting sport
True
In the 1980's ESPN was the first all sport network
True
It is often claimed by those involved in sports that sport participation helps build good character in young people?
True
Participation sports tend to have a more balanced approach to winning?
True
Playdays or sports days were the norm on college campuses in the 50s?
True
Sports pages first showed up in the newspapers in the late 1800's
True
The bulk of revenue for sports events is television fees?
True
The early to mid-1900's was only newspaper and radio for sports information
True
Today there are more women than men attending colleges and universities?
True
Unlike other world competitions, the gay games enables people from all walks of life to compete against each other regardless of skill level, age, or physical challenge
True
social trends are difficult to predict since we have no way of knowing how outside influences in society are likely to affect our state of mind, economy, and our values
True
The Beijing Olympics in 2008 cost 3 times more to stage than any other previous Olympic games?
True (43 billion)
Females over the age of 7 reported their most favorite physical activities as exercise is?
Walking
Overall at most levels of competition sports in American are dominated by?
Whites
According to the U.S. census which group will be the majority in the united states by 2050?
Whites; 46%
Sport is
a specialized and higher order of games with specific characteristics
In the past 20 years which type of performance enhancement has received the most attention?
anabolic steriods
Hooliganism
applied to working-class men who disrupt soccer games with antisocial behavior
Disability
applies to any individual who has a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more of the persons major life activities
Intrinsic rewards
fun and fitness
___ is a generalized fear or intolerance of lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, and transgender people?
homophobia
What is the three strike rule?
if you miss 3 drug tests then you can't play in the upcoming Olympics
Socialization
is the process of interacting with other people and learning social customs, morals, and values.
What is cosmetic fitness?
looking good for others
Which characteristic is not the typical player in fantasy sports?
male and below average income
Which of the following groups of men are most likely to commit acts of violence against women?
men who control women through their profession
Extrinsic rewards
money and fame
Title IX definition
no person in the U.S. shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving federal or financial assistance
The future of sport reporting is clearly through electronic media because?
of instant access to a larger national and global audience
Sporting Behavior?
often used to replace the traditional term sportsmanship in order to remove gender bias in describing human behavior in sport
Within our own society, certain social trends seem clear, which of the following is not clear?
our population is rapidly aging and the proportion of the populous that is older than 50 years will continue to skyrocket
Which of the following factors is not related to off-field violence by athletes?
personality
Stacking
refers to an unusual distribution of whites and blacks in certain sport positions that cannot be explained by a random distribution
under conformity
refers to behavior that does not conform to the generally accepted rules of sport
What is conflict theory?
rejects the status quo as it exists in capitalistic societies such as the United States. Karl Mark; views sport as built on a foundation of economic power.
Gender Verification
required for nearly 30 years, until the 1996 Atlanta Games.
any statement that imparts to specific characteristics to a group as a whole that is false
stereotypes
Hegemonic Masculinity
the practice that promotes the dominant social position of men, and the subordinate social position of women
What is sport psychology?
the study of human in sports (Behavior)
over conformity
to the expectations of high-performance sport; ex: drastically altering food intake to gain or lose weight and using supplements to improve strength or bulk up muscles
Sport Pyramid
work, sport, games, play (top --> bottom)
