Verified Test Bank Sports In The Future What Do We Want Ch16

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1) In the introduction to the chapter, the author explains that the future of sports will

A) emerge in uncontrollable and random ways.
B) involve dramatic changes that will surprise and shock people.
C) have little to do with general social conditions and cultural changes.
D) be created as people make choices about what they want sports to be.

2) When considering the future, it is useful to remember that

A) some sports will always exist in pure forms.
B) the future is the result of fate as much as anything else.
C) competition is a part of human nature.
D) sports are social constructions.

3) At any point in time in a culture, dominant sport forms

A) represent the interests of people who have power in that culture.
B) involve more of an emphasis on speed than strength.
C) reflect the interests of working-class people.
D) appeal more to the interests of athletes than to spectators.

4) Power and performance sports emphasize that people reach their potential when they

A) achieve machine-like efficiency.
B) develop close relationships with other athletes.
C) reach a state of peak enjoyment.
D) use physical skills to connect with the physical environment.

5) The sponsorship of power and performance sports is generally motivated by the idea that it is important to be associated with

A) masses of people participating in sports.
B) athletes and teams who are currently winners.
C) athletes who do community service.
D) groups of spectators known for their enthusiastic support.

6) Pleasure and participation sports generally emphasize

A) exclusive forms of participation.
B) the achievement of competitive success.
C) an ethic of good health.
D) the body as a machine that must be kept well-tuned.

7) When people play pleasure and participation sports, they are likely to

A) find it easy to obtain corporate sponsorships.
B) focus on their connections with other participants.
C) avoid all forms of physical exertion.
D) prefer indoor sports over outdoor sports.

8) The classic embodiment of power and performance sports is

A) Ultimate Frisbee.
B) co-rec softball.
C) international cricket.
D) American football.

9) The popularity of power and performance sports is connected with gender relations because these sports

A) emphasize co-recreational participation.
B) celebrate physical superiority and dominating others.
C) give women a chance to surpass the performances of men.
D) attract more female spectators than male spectators.

10) The media help to maintain the popularity of power and performance sports by associating them with

A) storylines that resonate with the experiences of consumers.
B) religious symbols and meanings.
C) everyday economic and political issues.
D) social problems that exist among upper-middle-class families.

11) If power and performance sports continue to be popular, we can expect that

A) sports will reproduce ideas emphasizing male-female differences.
B) there will less emphasis on sports personalities and their private lives.
C) there will be fewer concerns with gender issues.
D) women will outperform men in certain sports based on strength and speed.

12) Pleasure and participation sports will become more popular in the future because

A) the average age of the population is getting younger and younger.
B) more women are looking to men as models for how to do sports.
C) fewer people are looking for challenges in physical activities.
D) there are growing concerns about improving health and fitness.

13) Older people tend to prefer sports that stress

A) performance as more important than power.
B) cultivating the body rather than driving it.
C) intimidation as a strategy.
D) relaxation and an absence of challenges.

14) Some participants in alternative sports resist attempts to make their sports more like mainstream power and performance sports because they don't want

A) competition to replace creativity and support for other participants.
B) older people to develop interests in their sports.
C) changes in their equipment or the tricks they do.
D) their friends to watch them while they display their skills.

15) The Gay Games are an example of

A) an extreme form of power and performance sports.
B) people seeking an alternative to dominant sport forms.
C) people who want to avoid competition in their sports.
D) sports being used to support dominant ideas about sexuality.

16) The emergence of adult kickball in some cities is most likely an example of

A) a child's game being turned into a pleasure and participation sport.
B) a 21 ^st century spectacle much like professional wrestling.
C) adults seeking an alternative to power and performance sports.
D) how the profit motive can distort mainstream sport activities.

17) The legendary snowboarder Terje Haakonsen felt that spending years perfecting a specialized skill to conform to a single definition of technical perfection in the Olympics

A) was a goal he could not accomplish.
B) was the foundation for all joy in sports.
C) would win medals in the short run but not the long run.
D) would destroy the basis for fun in his sport.

18) Organization and rationalization tend to undermine the

A) seriousness of sports.
B) desire to develop physical skills in sports.
C) ability of people to play sports that fit into their lives.
D) play element in sports.

19) When commercialism and consumption pervade a society, people are viewed as

A) sources of creativity rather than stagnation.
B) creators of culture rather than citizens.
C) customers rather than citizens.
D) leaders rather than followers.

20) When commercial ideology pervades sports in a society, sports participation

A) becomes open to everyone.
B) ceases to be attractive to most people.
C) revolves around consumption.
D) is controlled by government.

21) Digital media will influence the future because

A) people prefer media content over human relationships.
B) many people want to live much of their lives in virtual realities.
C) they influence ideas about what sports could and should be like.
D) the media control how and what people think in everyday life.

22) The most important issue related to the use of technology in sports is

A) determining how to ban all forms of genetic engineering.
B) regulating the ways that technologies are incorporated into sports.
C) developing laws to restrict the involvement of scientists in sports.
D) how to help girls and women overcome their fears about technology.

23) The major demographic change that will influence sports in the future is

A) increased social and cultural diversity.
B) increases in family size.
C) less movement across national borders.
D) more women and children in the workforce.

24) When people have conservative goals for changing sports, they emphasize

A) the elimination of all sports that are not profit-making.
B) using sports to teach cooperation and sensitivity.
C) changing sports to how they were before 1900.
D) the growth and efficiency of existing sport programs.

25) A reformist goal for changing sports emphasizes

A) doing away with sports and replacing them with wellness activities.
B) regulating the use of new forms of technology in sports.
C) improving sports by making them more fair and equitable.
D) using management strategies to make sports organizations more efficient.

26) A radical goal for changing sports emphasizes

A) transforming current sports and creating new sport- forms.
B) eliminating sports and all other forms of physical activities.
C) raising funds to support more sports participation.
D) promoting the growth of power and performance sports.

27) Few people have radical goals for changing sports because people who support radical goals usually

A) avoid sports because they don't like physical activities.
B) focus on changing living conditions more than changing sports.
C) believe that sports are unrelated to the rest of society.
D) avoid confrontation in their lives.

28) Who would be most likely to use a critical approach as they worked to change sports? Someone with

A) conservative goals.
B) personal goals.
C) reformist goals.
D) radical goals.

29) When people use an inside vantage point for changing sports the biggest problem is that by the time they have the power to exert influence they will

A) have a vested interest in maintaining sports as they are.
B) be alienated and unwilling to work for changes.
C) be so old that others will ignore them.
D) lose their interest in sports and sports participation.

30) When joining opposition groups to establish a vantage point for changing sports, a person is most likely to be successful when working to

A) oppose mega-events such as the Olympic Games.
B) create more diverse sports spaces at a local level.
C) defeat legislation to build costly stadiums with public funds.
D) establish media coverage of a new sport played by low-income girls.

31) Using cultural theories as a guide for changing sports would lead to an emphasis on

A) achieving conservative and radical goals.
B) changing symbols, vocabularies, and ideologies.
C) changing socialization processes in families.
D) regulating economic processes related to funding priorities.

32) Using interactionist theories as a guide for changing sports would lead to an emphasis on

A) achieving personal and radical goals.
B) changing patterns of organization in sport organizations.
C) developing relationships and alliances with people in sports.
D) pleasure and participation sports.

33) Using structural theories as a guide for changing sports would lead to an emphasis on

A) changing people's identities and role model priorities.
B) developing relationships with people in sports.
C) creating new symbols, values, and beliefs among people in sports.
D) regulating economic processes related to funding priorities.

34) People who work and raise money to build a Miracle Field are usually interested in issues that promote

A) competitive success.
B) local businesses.
C) social inclusion.
D) radical change in athletes.