Instruction
should not go over one page, single-spaced, typed in 12-point, Times New Roman font
Read articles that I uploaded, and answer the questions below
*******The assignment is 6 hours left ***********
1st article read all
2nd article pg.21-26
What are Sports? (Coakley)
List the elements included in the traditional definition of sports provided by Coakley.
Explain how the concept of “institutionalization” relates to the definition of sport, according to Coakley.
Provide an example of sport, play, and dramatic spectacle based on Coakley’s explanation.
Briefly explain the disadvantage of using traditional approaches to defining sport.
Briefly explain how cultural differences/context impact what Coakley calls “an alternative approach to defining sports.”
Coakley gives examples of issues/questions that are resolved around the ways sports are defined in society. List a few tangible results of deeming an activity a sport—or not a sport—based on Coakley’s examples and subsequent discussion of activities such as aerobics or competitive dancing.
Sport in Society (Coakley)
When functionalists describe how the system of sport works, they are generally and primarily concerned with what?
Briefly explain the meaning of pattern maintenance in society for sports.
What is meant by integration as a function of (spectator) sport?
What is meant by the goal attainment function of sport for functionalists? Capitalist countries are more likely to emphasize what in relationship to goal attainment, according to Coakley?
Explain one limit of the functionalist approach, according to Coakley.