APA 1302 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Symbolic Interactionism, Feminist Theory
29 Jan 2017
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Use sports to challenge and transform exploitive and oppressive practices. Increase the number and diversity of sport participation opportunities. Challenge the ideological implications of the stories told about sports in a culture. Challenge the voices and perspectives of those with power in sports and society. No clear guidelines for identifying and assessing forms of resistance and strategies for producing transformation. No uni ed strategies for dealing with social problems, con icts, and injustice. Theories are tools that help us ask questions, collect and analyze information, and interpret the implications of the analyses. Our choice of theories is in uenced by our goals and political agendas. The best theories are those that help us nd ways to make the world more democratic and humane. (right?) Using the theory you have been assigned, discuss recent research data stating that organized sport participation in canada is decreasing. Con ict theory: power, money and division privilege (house league vs.
