PHED 6270 Sociology of Sports and Physical Activity Summer 2014 COUSE INSTRUCTOR: Dr. Erin Reilly Office Room Number: Welness 217 Phone: 244-3586 Email Address: ereilly@aum.edu REQUIRED TEXT: Jay Coakley (2009), Sport in Society: Issues and Controversies (10th ed.). Boston: McGraw Hill. Course Objectives The student will demonstrate an understanding of the following through assigned papers, quizzes, and exams: 1. How and why sport in general and certain sports in particular have been created and organized in certain ways. 2. The connection between sports and other spheres of social life, such as family, education, politics, the economy, the media, and religion. 3. How sports and sport participation inform the way people think about their own bodies and about gender, social class, race and ethnicity, disability, and so on. 4. The social organization, group behavior, and social interaction patterns that exist within sport settings. 5. The cultural, structural, and situational factors affecting sports and sport experiences. 6. The social processes that occur in conjunction with sports, processes such as socialization, competition, cooperation, conflict, social stratification, and social change. GRADING Quizzes: = 100 90-100%= A Discussion Questions: 4 @ 20 pts. Each = 80 80-89%= B VoiceThread: = 20 70-79%= C Sport in Another Country Paper: = 50 Below 70%= F Sport Subcultures Paper: = 50 Final Exam = 100 Accomodations: Faculty in the School of Education make every effort to accommodate unique and special needs of students with respect to speech, hearing, vision, seating, or other possible disabling conditions. Please notify the instructor as soon as possible of requested accommodations or ways to help. Schedule Note: For each assigned chapter you should read the chapter, view the powerpoint, and take the true/false quiz. Additional assignments are listed below. Week Assigment VoiceThread # 1 due 1 Ch. 3 “Studying the Past: Does It Help us Understand Sports Today?” Ch. 3 Quiz due VoiceThread # 1 due 2 Ch. 8 “Gender and Sports: Does Equity Require Ideological Changes?” Ch. 8 Quiz due Ch. 8 Discussion Question Phone call to discuss papers. 3 Ch. 9 “Race and Ethnicity: Are They Important in Sports?” Ch. 9 Quiz due Ch. 9 Discussion Question 4 Ch. 10 “Social Class: Do Money and Ch. 11; “Sports and the Economy” Power Matter in Sports?” Ch. 10 and Ch. 11 Quizzes due Ch. 11 Discussion Question 5 Ch. 12; “Sports and the Media: Could They Survive Without Each Other?” Ch. 12 Quiz due 6 Ch.13 “Sports and Politics: How Do Governments and Globalization Influence Sports?” Ch. 13 Quiz due Ch.13 Discussion Question 7 Ch 14 “Sports in High School and College” Ch. 14 Quiz due Sport in Another Country Paper Due 8 Ch. 16; “Sports in the Future: Are We Agents of Change?” Ch. 16 Quiz due Sport Subculture Paper Due; Final Exam Assignments 1. Quizzes- Go to the textbook website, click on Student Edition, then click on the chapter, then click on Quizzes to take assigned quizzes (choose the True/False quizzes). Have the results sent to ereilly@aum.edu Here is the url for the textbook website: http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/007337654x/information_center_view0/ You can take the quiz more than once, but just send the results one time. Make sure you study these for the final exam. NOTE: If you took the class as an undergraduate and have the 9th edition book you can take the quizzes from the website for the 9th edition, but make sure that you take the quiz for the right chapter based on title rather than number in case there is a difference. 2. Discussion Questions. Use the discussion board on BlackBoard to answer the following during the assigned week. You may comment on the answers of other people, but use good etiquette: a. Chapter 8: Do a quick assessment of gender equity in the sport programs at your school. Do you think your school could meet the legal definition of equity as spelled out in connection with title IX? How would the school meet the definition or fail to meet it? Keep in mind the recent change in the law that surveying current students to determine “interest” is no longer sufficient at colleges. The college would need to survey students at the high schools that feed into the college to determine the interest of those students (students with a strong interest are likely to go to colleges that have those opportunities, and therefore a survey just given at the college is unlikely to show a true picture of “interest.”) b. Chapter 9: Your 14-year-old brother comes to you and asks why he sees so many black athletes in certain sports, and so few or none in other sports. What are three of the main points you would talk about in your discussion with him? (Your answer to this should reflect your understanding of the concepts in the chapter and be based on facts rather than opinion). c. Chapter 11: Pretend that you live in a city with an NFL football team. Some of the business leaders in your city are proposing that public money be used to build a $1.3-billion, state-of-the-art domed sport stadium for the local NFL team. There will be a vote on this issue in the next election. Will you vote for or against the proposal? Explain why you will vote one way or the other. (Your answer to this should reflect your understanding of the concepts in the chapter and be based on facts rather than opinion). 3. Sports in Another Country Paper: a. Interview someone from a country other than the United States or your native country if you are not from the U.S. b. Write a 2-3 page paper on sports in that person’s country, from a sociological perspective. c. Sample questions: What are the major and minor sports? How do sports connect with gender, race, the economy, media, religion, politics, social class, family, school, etc.? Do a little research on the country before the interview to help guide specific questions. d. You should NOT use ANY resources other than the person you interview. Write the whole paper in your own words and the words of the person you interview. That person may not know answers to all of your questions, and that is fine. 4. Subculture paper: Read the Subcultures Lecture Powerpoint on Blackboard and follow the directions on the last slide. You should NOT use ANY resources other than either what you know, or if you interview someone, what that person tells you. If you feel like you need more resources then you need to pick another topic for which you don’t need other resources. Write the whole paper in your own words (and the words of the person you interview, if you interview someone). Email me to confirm your topic before you begin writing. You will need to set up a time to call me on the phone to talk about your subculture paper and your sport in another country paper. Email me to set up the time in about 2 weeks. 5. VoiceThread: a. Follow the directions on Blackboard for registering, commenting on, and creating VoiceThreads. b. VoiceThread #1: Watch VoiceThread with my video introduction (link is on Blackboard). You will introduce yourself to the rest of the class through the Comment feature. VoiceThread is not a good format for long written comments so you should either use a microphone or a video to post your response. Tell us a little about what sport/recreation/exercise/leisure activities have meant to you in your life. 20 pts.