| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Sociology | The scientific discipline that describes and explains human social organization. |
| Social Constructions | Socially constructed meanings about a particular phenomena that are taken for granted based on shared belief systems. Beliefs and meaning that underlie statements and phenomena. |
| Culture | Collective or shared system of values, beliefs, traditions, norms and expectations. It is subjective, intangible, taken for granted – not much thought. It is also learned. |
| Cultural Practices | Ways of being that come into practice based on a particular culture; way of life. They are dynamic and vary from society to society. |
| Subculture | Culture within a culture. A unique set of norms, expectations, behaviors, beliefs and traditions. |
| Society | Institutions that structure a social system. (formal and tangible structures of social organization) Refers to a collection of people living in a defined geographical territory that unites through clearly defined systems and a shared sense of self-identification that distinguishes them from other collections of people. |
| Cultural Ideology | The general perspectives and ideas that people use to make sense of social worlds, discover their place in that world, and determine what is important or unimportant and what is right and natural in the world. |
| Dominant Ideology | Built upon the perspective and ideas favored and promoted by dominant and powerful groups in a society and it server the interests of those groups. Based on dominant thinking in a society. |
| Sport | Institutionalized competitive activities that involve rigorous physical exertion or the use of relatively complex skills by participants motivated by personal enjoyment and external rewards. |
| The Deeper Game | To identify and understand social problems and issues in sport. To view sports as a social phenomena. |
| Microsociology | Study of the sociology of everyday life. |
| Macrosociology | Study of the "bug picture approach." The study of how big social institutions affect human social organization. |
| Theory | A specified set of expectations about relationships in the world. |
| Interactionist Theories | Explain what we know about the origins, dynamics, and consequences of social interaction among people in particular social worlds. |
| Cultural Theories | Explain what we know about the ways that people think and express their values, ideas, and beliefs as they live together and create social worlds. |
| Structural Theories | Explain what we know about forms of social organization that influence actions and relationships. |
| Critical Approach | An approach that acknowledges that the purpose of knowledge is to empower people to create sustainable, just, equitable ways of life. A theory that uses research to improve people's lives. |
| Quantitative Data | Data that includes numbers and statistics. |
| Qualitative Data | Data that includes patterns, unique features and interpretation. Usually includes more interview, observations and open-ended questions. |
| Ideological Themes | Success, consumption, gender, race and ethnicity. |
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