APA 1302 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Critical Race Theory, Antonio Gramsci, Herbert Blumer

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Human Kinetics
• Course: APA 1302
• Professor: Michael Robidoux

Document Summary

All actions are social, tied into other social processes. Focused on the connection and interaction between social facts and the various social structures that make up societies. Function: structure of society stable and persistent patterns of elements all elements function or contribute the overall stability of the. Focuses on sport participation and positive outcomes for individuals and society. People like it because there is a balance. Those with power and influence prefer it because it is the most stable in society. Increase sport participation opportunities to foster individual development. Weakness: it fails to recognize the negative side not all social groups benefit. May exclude others does not recognize sport as neutral entities. Sports are studied in terms of how they promote economic exploitation and capitalist expansion. History is determined by social and cultural conflict. Mode of production: sees capitalist exploit the labor of the working classes.