SOC 505 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Esports, Profit Motive, The Sociological Imagination
19 Oct 2015
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Culture: consists of the ways of life people create as they participate in a group or society. Society refers to a collection of people living in a defined geographical territory and united by a political system and a shared sense of self-identification that distinguishes them from other collections of people. Sports are institutionalized competitive activities that involve rigorous physical exertion or the use of relatively complex physical skills by participants motivated by internal and external rewards. Example: women"s ski jump and the 2010 vancouver games challenge. Ski jumpers" perspective: discrimination against women, canadian charter of rights and freedoms basis of gender. International olympic committee perspective: no discrimination - not well enough developed internationally. South korea video games exploded as spectator sports. Blizzard created starcraft and launched esports in korea making stars. League of legends 93 million players. (27 million viewers) 71 billion in revenues, amazon paid million for twitch watch and stream video games live.
