Exam 3: Sports and Socialization: Who Plays and What Happens to Them

Focusing on socialization as a community and cultural process, David Andrews studied the "persona" created in connection with Michael Jordan during the 1990s.He concludes that through media images of Jordan, the "Jordan persona" was

When Sharon Wheeler interviewed British elementary school children for whom sports were important, she found that their sport participation was linked to

Garry Wheeler's study of the careers of athletes with disabilities indicated that the main challenge athletes faced when they retired involved

When researchers use cultural theories and a postructuralist approach to study community-based socialization processes, they focus on

When the author paraphrases Gramsci's conclusion about hegemony, he says that "it is difficult to fight an enemy that ...

According to the definition used in Chapter 3, socialization refers to a process that

Studies using a qualitative approach have found that becoming involved and staying involved in sports primarily is the result of

Carefully designed studies based on structural theories and a personal internalization model of socialization have found that three things are related to becoming involved in sports.Which of the following is NOT one of those things?

Pleasure and participation sports tend to emphasize

After doing in-depth interviews with British adolescents from working class British families, Anita White and Jay Coakley concluded that sport participation among these young people was the result of

Some sociologists now study socialization as a community and cultural process.The research of these sociologists tends to focus on

When Patti and Peter Adler studied a big-time intercollegiate men's basketball team, they discovered that team members gradually

Loic Wacquant's study of the social world of boxers in a Chicago gym indicated that boxing

In recent years, those who study sports and socialization have tended to use research methods that emphasize

Most people in the sociology of sport today do not see sports as causes of specific socialization outcomes.Instead, they view sports as

The carefully designed studies done between 1950 and 1980 have led to some basic conclusions about changing or ending sport participation.Which of the following is NOT one of the conclusions?

Nancy Theberge's study of an elite women's ice hockey team in Canada found that locker room interaction among the players involved

A review of socialization research led the author to conclude that sport participation is most likely to have positive socialization consequences when it

The in-depth interviews done by Anita White and Jay Coakley indicated that young people are most likely to participate in sports when they

Recent studies of socialization are based on social interaction models rather than personal internalization models.Social interaction models emphasize that human beings are