KNES 287- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 90 pages long!)

• School: University of Maryland
• Department: Kinesiology
• Course: KNES 287
• Professor: Andrews

Document Summary

Everyone needs a sociological imagination: without it living blind. Kinesiology is the interdisciplinary study of physical activity. Sociology denaturalizes (things that appear to be natural) The active body: the muscle is a natural entity- it is a biophysical constitution, but it is also socio- cultural, political, economic, technology, and constitution. It is that, of course, but it is also a social and cultural (and economic and technological) phenomenon. While some of this course will focus on the prolympic understanding of sport (elite, highly structured, and competitive forms of team. These are fitness and wellness, health, therapeutics, education, leisure, and recreation. Rather than simply sport, within this course, we often use the. Physical culture is an ontological mixed entity (there are diverse ways of being physically active) Pe, rehab, martial arts, fitness, dance, movement, sport, leisure, recreation all active, but all different. Physical culture refers to bofy, and more specifically , the active body (the body in movement)-