Sociology
Study of social life
Become an individual after interacting with society
2 types of power relation
Interpersonal/group power relation
Structural power relation
Interpersonal power relation
Asymmetrical power relations between an individual or group
Both side agree for this authority. One side has more than others
Structural power relations
Not always 1 on 1 interaction. Embedded in social structures.
Sport
Formally organized competitive activity that involves vigorous physical exertion/execution of complex physical skill with rules enforced by a regulatory body.
Sociological imagination
Ability to go beyond personal issues and to make connections to social structures, history and broader power relations.
Social structure: changing families, workplaces, sport models
Power relations: social class: Rich has more power and access.
3 modernizing factors
- Improvement of transportation
- Improvement of communication ( can follow a star)
- Improvement of technology and facilities
Amateur
One who has never competed in competition for public money, or prize or like no working class, no women, no native .
Everyone other than the first class white male.
Social stratification
Process of creating layers in society
E.g first class, business class, where to sit on a stadium.
structured forms of economic inequalities that are part of the organization of everyday social life.
Power
Ability to define the structure, tradition, practices and meaning in sports
Class ideologies:
web of ideas and beliefs that people use to understand economic inequalities ( like social class) identify theemselves in what class they are in and evaluate the jmanner in which economic inequalities are and should be integrated into organization of social worlds.
Hegemony
Process which dominant individuals and groups are able to use their power to establish a common sense ( ideological system of means and value)
Meritocracy
Reward based on performance
You get what you deserve and you deserve what you get
2 conditions in order to have a level playing field
- equality of opportunity : everyone must have equally available chance
- Equality of condition: everyone must compete under the same conditions.
Sex
Sex you are assigned to at birth. (biological)
Gender
Cultural expectation about behaviour, attitude, and appearance that are imposed on people in relation to their physical sex
Race
Socially construcvted distinctions between groups of people because of physical/genetic characteristics.
meaning given to physical trait.
white stream
diverse country but continue to be defined by the white experience
What supremacy
sociopolitical economic system that benefit those who are defined and perceived as white. not individual but more social as a whole system .
situational racism
words/action of people who believe in superiority of one group of people over another
Systemic racism
structured into political institution/government discriminate to give more benefit to a certain group.
CRT (Critical race Theory
activist interested in studying and transforming the relationship between power, race, and racism
Core principle of Critical race theory
- Racism is not an aberration in western socieites but part of very fabric of those societies.
Not solely through individual acts. (not just about few bad apples) - Reject liberals approach to racial justice
- Does not endorse zero sum understanding of power: Doesn’t mean all or nothing for power. Everyone has power but some people/groups has more power than others.
- Race intersect with other axes of privilege and marginalization: gender, sexuality, social class…
- Not enough to focus on and acknowledge the outcomes
- Help identify racial injustice is reproduced and work to transofrm those relations .
Social structure
Patterned relationship that connect different parts of society to one another
puts restraint on our life
