Max. Word Count = 250. Include “Key” and “References” at
the end (these do NOT count against your WC).
Choose a sport-specific article in the mainstream media that presents sociological and legal issues (make this your
“Title” [will not count against WC]).
Use the sociological theories (F), (SI), (CT), and/or (Fe)] to understand/explain the issue.
Identify the central legal issues and predict who (P) or (D)] is most likely to win in a court of law and why. Defend using legal theory.
Key (this simply explains my abbreviation usage above):
(F) = Functionalism
(Sl) = Symbolic Interactionism
(CT) = Conflict Theory
(Fe) = Feminism
(P) = Plaintiff
(D) = Defendant
Category: critical issues in sport
https://www.pavegen.com/
https://www.epa.gov/smm/greening-sports-through-sustainable-materials-management
https://greensportsalliance.org/
https://www.sportecology.org/
The aim of this project is for you to come up with a unique idea to make sport sustainable—make sport work with the environment! You can choose any aspect of sport (the game, athletes, rules, standards, policies, training, facilities, fields/courts, equipment, apparel, etc.). This is an oral presentation combined with a PowerPoint.
Your presentation will be graded on the following:
Professionalism
Time limit (max. 4-minutes), Use of outside sources to support and strengthen your presentation. PowerPoint must include in-text citations, “Key” and References at the end.
Bright Idea!
What is your Bright Idea? Explain your idea, describe/show how it will result in sport working with (as opposed to against) the environment. Include prescriptive non-moral justifications for your idea (utility, intrinsic, extrinsic, and/or contributory).
Moral, Ethical, and Socially Responsible Reasoning
Why should (prescriptive, moral) your idea be implemented? Provide reasoning to include moral/ethical, and Rawls (LMR). For social responsibility, explain your idea through the lens of the (ToJ) and one or more of the sociological theories.
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The Dialectic Method
Take us through an iteration/round of the (DM), identifying/explaining the (T), (AT), and (S) at each stage. Explain how the implementation of your idea will result in sport working in harmony with the environment. Last, predict ‘the absolute’ (Ab) for your Bright Idea.
Identify a sport-specific issue of interest to you. Using the ‘matrix of oppression’ (PDF provided) as your framework, craft a comment grounded in specific aspects of the sociological theories to explain the sociological underbelly of hierarchy, hegemony, appropriation, and assimilation toward understanding “the why” of this issue (Thesis). In closing, offer, a moral/ethical (AntiThesis) and a legal (A.T.) that will advance progressive change (sociologically).
LINKS:
ESPN – What does SCIENCE say about Transgender Athletes – https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=518bOMc9jaQ
Title IX proposed language change to consider Trans Athletes: https://www.ed.gov/news/press-releases/ fact-sheet-us-department-educations-proposed-change-its-title-ix-regulations-students-eligibility-athletic-teams
http://www.outsports.com/2022/1/20/22892770/ncaa-trans-inclusion-policy-ioc-lia-thomas