Sociology of Sports , Friday Night Lights . ( THE TV SERIES) not the movie.. LOOK AT DEADLINE

Play

Games

Sport

Work (as in professional team sports)

amateurs

 participation sport

high-performance sport/athletes

quantitative methods

quantifiable data

Descriptive statistics - statistics that involve summarizing, tabulating, organizing and graphing data for the purpose of describing a sample or individuals that have been measured or observed.

Inferential statistics - involves making inferences about the value of one or more population parameters, on the basis of sample statistics. 

survey research

interviews

content research

ethnography

historical research

societal analysis

social theories

gender - the personal traits and social positions that members of a society attach to being female or male.

indirect spectators

sports spectators

direct spectators

conflict theory

critical theories - are an extension of conflict theory in the sense that those who have power want to keep it, power is unequally distributed in society (social class, race/ethnicity, and gender), and those groups or individuals who lack power want to gain it. 

feminist theory

functionalist theory - centered on the idea that there is a general consensus in values & norms of society and that the social institutions found within a society are integrated into a functional whole.

hegemony theory

interactionist theory

figurational theory

sport sociology

sociological imagination

hegemonic masculinity

social class

stages of moral development (preconvential stage, conventional stage, postconventional stage)

corporate sport

ideology of sport

traditional values

sporting behavior

sportsmanship

total salary cap

revenue sharing

naming rights

race/ethnicity

agents of socialization