KINE 4340 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Athletic Scholarship, Commodification, Wilt Chamberlain
16 Dec 2015
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Define: power/knowledge: power/knowledge: helps to explain how power operates in modernity. Those with power are able to generate knowledge about those with less power. Knowledge is manifested through the use of labels; experts have power and give labels: sun and shadow : The shadow: the process by which soccer has become more commercial, controlled by the very wealthy barons who also control the media. Superstructure: suggests a parallel between slavery and modern athletics in us athletic recruitment is the modern day equivalent of the slave trade, edwards focuses on problems in high-performance sport with an eye towards fixing. On the contrary, james focuses on the positive aspects of sports, and sees sport as beautiful. o. Agreeing with robidoux and shogan: high-performance sport requires incredible discipline and is in many respects not at all pleasurable, but a very rigid form of work.
