SJSU Catalog - KIN Dept.

Catalog Description

 

The role of sport (recreational and professional) as a social, political and economic institution in American society. Critical examination of contemporary issues affecting sport and sport involvement by diverse cultural groups within American society. Prerequisite: Completion of core GE, satisfaction of Writing Skills Test and upper division standing. For students who begin continuous enrollment at a CCC or a CSU in Fall 2005 or later, completion of, or corequisite in a 100W course is required. Notes: Not open to KIN majors for major/minor credit.

 

(Note: All handouts are in .pdf or .rtf format and open a new page)

 

Spring 2010 Greensheet (HERE)

MidTerm Review (HERE)

 

 

Sport Studies? 

 Why study sport? / Sport as a cultural form (notes)

 

Sport and Social Theory – Becoming Critical Consumers of Sport

 

 

Social theories and sport: Using “lenses” to interpret sport

Text: Chapter 1 “The sociological analysis of sport”

Personal Reserve:  “Using social theories: What can they tell us about sports in society” – J. Coakley (notes) (reading - Coakley)

 

 

Social theories and sport: Using “lenses” to interpret sport – (Continued)

 

Sport and Social Action/ Social Intervention

 

 

Social actions within sport

Video: Fields of Fire:  Sport in the 60’s

Personal Reserve:  “Where are the jocks for justice?” – K. Candaele & P. Dreier

 

Sport, character, and values:  Do dominant social values influence sport?

 

Sport and Socialization/values (notes)

Text:  Chapter 3 “Sport and societal values”

 

Youth sport & high school sport (notes)

Text:  Chapter 4 & 5 “Children and sport” & “Interscholastic sport”

Video:  Playing to Extremes  

 

 Controversies in intercollegiate sport

 

 

Student-athletes or athlete-students & Agency in college sport                                                       

Text:  Chapter 6 “Intercollegiate sport” (notes)

Personal Reserve:  “Sport participation and Women’s personal empowerment: Experience of the college athlete” – Blinde, Taub, & Han

 

Sport, economics, and social class: A reflection of structured inequalities?

 

 

Social class and sport involvement (notes)  

Text:  Chapter 12 “Sport, social stratification, and social mobility”

                                               

 

Characteristics of big-time sport / sports market                                          

Text:  Chapter 10 “Sport and the economy”  (notes)

 

Sport, politics, and (inter)national identity

 

 

Sport and the political process

Text:  Chapter 9 “Sport and politics”

Personal Reserve:  “Sports, war, and ideological imperialism” – G. Gems

 

Sport, violence, and drugs

 

 

Violence on and off the field

Personal Reserve:  “Life is a contact sport” – S. Dubner

 

The ethics of drug use and drug testing (notes)

Text:  Chapter 7 “Social problems and North American sport”

Video:  Dying to win

 

Sport and the media

 

 

Media: The necessary “evil”?

Text:  Chapter 11 “Sport and the mass media” (notes)

 

Women and the sport media: Does the media perpetuate gender inequality?

 

 

Personal Reserve:  “The gender of audience building: Televised coverage of Woman’s and Men’s NCAA basketball” – Messner, Duncan, & Wachs

Personal Reserve:  “Media coverage of women’s sport” – G.  Cunningham

Video:  Playing unfair

 

 

Research Paper Guidelines (NOTES)

 

 

Sport and Identity politics/ politics of identity:  How does sport inform Identity?

 

::Gender::

 

Text:  Chapter 14 “Gender in North American sport: Continuity and change” (Overview for next several classes)

 

(Gender) 

Women’s sport participation and Title IX                                           

Personal Reserve:  “Gender equity in college sports: 6 views” – The Chronicle of Higher Education

 

(Gender) 

Hegemonic masculinity: Making men through sport (notes)

Personal Reserve:  “The televised manhood sports formula” – Messner, Dunbar, & Hunt.

Personal Reserve:  “Challenges to male hegemony in Sport” – L. Bryson

 

(Gender) 

Personal Reserve:  Becoming 100% Straight – M. Messner

Video Toughguise

 

            ::Sexual Orientation::

 

 

Gay & Lesbian Issues in Sport

Personal Reserve:  “Homophobia in Women’s Sport: The fear that divides us” – P. Griffin

Personal Reserve:  “Blood, sweat, and jeers: The impact of the media’s heterosexist portrayals on perceptions of male and female athletes” – Knight & Giuliano

 

            ::Race, Ethnicity & Multiculturalism::

 

Text:  Chapter 13  “Racial-Ethnic minorities in sport” (Overview for the next several classes)

 

 

What are race, ethnicity and whiteness?

Personal Reserve:  “Sport racism, and young women” – T. Lovell

Personal Reserve:  “Understanding multiculturalism and valuing diversity” – J. DeSensi

 

African-American experiences in sport (notes)                                                  

Personal Reserve:  “Breaking the taboo” – J. Entine

Personal Reserve:  “On your marks, get stereotyped – GO!” – Rassmussen, Esgate & Turner

 

 

Native Americans and team mascots                       

Video:  “In Whose Honor”

 

 

Asian American experiences in sport (New Reading)

Personal Reserve:  “Sport, ethnicity and racism: The experience of Asian heritage boys” – McGuire & Collins

 

 

Latino experiences in sport

Personal Reserve:  “Who’s the man:  Sammy Sosa, Latinos, and televisual redefinitions of the “American” pastime” – J. Juffer

Personal Reserve:  “Racial and ethnic employment discrimination” – F. Bellemore

 

Sport and (dis)ability

 

 

Personal Reserve:  “The Paralympics Paradox” - Sports Jones article

Personal Reserve:  “Subverting bodies/ambivalent representations:  Medial analysis of paralympian, Hope Lewellen” - -B.L.A. Schell & S. Rodriguez

 

 

Personal Reserve:  “Socio-cultural context of disability: Implications for scientific inquiry and professional preparation” – K. DePauw (notes)

 

Sport and Ageism:  What messages are we sending?

 

Personal Reserve:  “Successful Aging in the new Millennium” – W. Chodzko-Zajko