Deregulation:
he reduction or elimination of government power in a particular industry, usually enacted to create more competition within the industry
Individualism:
- less government involvement or intervention in the economy
- economic freedom, private ownership, competition etc.
Social production (discourse):
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Truth vs truth:
- Truth: absolute, based on empirical evidence and objective reasons
- truth: wide-spread acceptance
Neoliberalism:
- new form of economic liberalism
- individual freedoms
- competition
- private property
- free markets
- as little government intervention and regulation as possible
- trickle down economics
Neoliberalists seek to privatize institutions such as…
- education
- health care
- social services
Neoliberalists seek to deregulate industries such as…
- energy
- communication
- food
- drugs
- finance
Why does George Manbiot argue that neoliberalism is the ideology at the root of all of our problems because:
- it reduces human relations to cold competitive battle
- it relegates individuals to being mere consumers
- it assumes that democracy is basically an exercise in the buying and selling of goods and services
Neoliberals suggest that the market is a ____ and ____ force that will solve all our problems if only we…
- natural
- objective
- leave it up to its own devices
The neoliberals assumption fails to acknowledge that the market is…. and what the market wants tends to mean…
- fraught with power relations
- what corporations and their bosses want
The end result of neoliberal ideology is that…
we are led to believe in the myth of the self-made person
Myth of the self-made person:
- rich persuade themselves that they acquired their wealth through merit ignoring the advantages that may have helped to secure it
- poor begin to blame themselves for their failures, even when they can do little to change their circumstances
Roll back neoliberalism:
- the active destruction or discreditation of Keynesian-welfarist and social-collectivist institutions
- retreat from previous governmental control of resources and state regulations
- privatization
- deregulation
Roll-out neoliberalism:
- reregulation
- marketization
- the purposeful construction and consolidation of neoliberalized state forms, modes of governance, and regulatory relations
Neoliberalism: increase:
- GDP
- entrepreneurialism
Neoliberalism: stimulate both ____ and _____.
- investment
- innovation
P3s:
- public-private partnerships
- a process in which the government facilitates the frameworks through which services are delivered rather than delivering them directly
P3s can be longer than…
any government term
P3s require …
binding contracts (often drafted based on corporate expertise)
P3s are designed to ….
- protect the company from losses
- not to deliver the best product to the public
Today capitalism privatizes the ____ and socializes the ____.
- gains
- risks
The more that capital is successful in the struggle against ____, the greater its _____. The more the _____ succeed, the higher their ….
- labour
- profits
- labourers
- standard of living and the more options they have
The rights and protections you have today resulted from and are safeguarded not by ____ or even many ____.
- employers
- governments
Sport is built on the model that _____ is good and ____ _____ is what it takes to be successful.
- competition
- individual effort
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Intro1
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Power29
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Capitalism59
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Neoliberalism26
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Sociological Thinking/Imagination31
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Globalization21
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Subject Positions, Identity, and Intersectionality37
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Social Production of Knowledge and Science2
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Hilliard 1994: Sociological Imagination8
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Ryan and harrison 2017: Neoliberalism2
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Health Inequalities3
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Terms62
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Intersectionality3
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Gender Verification23
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Death to the Prancing Prince13
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Masculinity and Hockey22
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Women in Sport9
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Race and Sport14
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Risk in Sport and Leisure15
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Sport and Development13
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Sport for Development and Peace32
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Final Review4
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Colonialism17
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Leisure and Colonialism19
