Deck 15: Contemporary Trends and the Future of Sport in North America Main Themes

Question 1

One of the most significant trends in North America is the changing nature of its population, and estimates for the next twenty-five years indicate that the US population will actually decline slightly.

Answer 1

False

Question 2

Economically some transnational corporations exceed the size of many nation-states.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

Regionalist professional team names, rather than single-city names, represent a trend that suggests that in the future regional considerations will take precedence over single-city loyalties.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

Under the various four-day and flextime workweek schemes tried so far, weekly work hours are reduced to between twenty-five and thirty.

Question 5

With the growth of an information/technology society, it seems likely that violent sports will gradually be abolished.

Question 6

The technosports of the future will involve natural play and unstructured games, many of them done outdoors and without codified rules.

Question 7

Cellular biologists believe that within ten years gene therapy will enable scientists to alter the muscle fibers of athletes to produce record performances.

Question 8

In late 2012 the commissioner of Major League Baseball announced that the league was planning to add four more franchises before the beginning of the 2018 season.

Question 9

Some of the trends in intramural athletic programs are to deemphasize championships, eliminate trophies, sponsor sports clubs, and include equal sport opportunities for females.

Question 10

Because of the financial pressures on high schools, one of the trends is called "pay for play," which requires athletes to assume some of the costs of equipment and other expenses to the school associated with sports programs.

Question 11

One aspect of the new open visibility of gays and lesbians as sports fans is that they are now viewed as a "niche market" by commercial interests.

Question 12

The Paralympics is a sporting event for athletes with physical disabilities.

Question 13

Over the next two decades there is expected to be a in both the Canadian and the US populations.

A) continued increase
B) decrease in the proportion of older people
C) decrease
D) None of the above

Question 14

In the four-day and flextime work schemes tried so far, the workweek

A) has been significantly reduced.
B) has been significantly increased.
C) remains about the same.
D) None of the above

Question 15

Fantasy sport leagues have emerged as an extremely popular form of sport, especially among young men.

A) technosport
B) intellectual
C) ecosport
D) simulation

Question 16

A manifestation of technosport is

A) scientific selection of future athletes in childhood.
B) increased specialization in sports.
C) domed stadiums.
D) All of the above

Question 17

The emergence of superior athletic performance is largely due to a pool of who are knowledgeable about the newest biotechnologies.

A) sport scientists
B) techno-coaches
C) sport trainers
D) robotic engineers

Question 18

includes a variety of what have been called "nontraditional" or "alternative"
Outdoor activities.

A) Technosports
B) Violent sports
C) Simulations
D) Ecosports

Question 19

Recent studies have shown that the trend toward continues into the second decade of the twenty-first century.

A) longer working hours
B) shorter working hours
C) a higher percentage of unionized workers
D) worker contentment

Question 20

Traditional athletic priorities and practices have begun to be challenged by a new set of standards premised on the notion that have relevance in sport as well as other sectors of life.

A) technosports
B) "winning is the only thing" ideas
C) democratic processes
D) extrinsic processes

Question 21

The Paralympic Games are

A) the world's largest sporting event.
B) the world's second largest sporting event.
C) held every four years in Sweden.
D) planning to hold the first Winter Paralympics in Canada.

Question 22

One of the new aspects of the open visibility of gays and lesbians as sports fans is that they are beginning to

A)be viewed as a "niche market" by commercials interests.
B) find a great deal of opposition from professional team sports leagues to the new visibility.
C) hinder season tickets sales of professional team sports leagues.
D) None of the above

Question 23

Competitive video and computer game play can be called , and it is a rather new development in the world of digital gaming.

A) fantasy sports
B) competitive e-sports
C) video sports
D) TV video gaming

Question 24

Describe how the anticipated trends in population growth, population composition, and location of population will affect sporting practices in North America.

Question 25

Describe what is meant by the information/service society. Discuss the information/service workplace and its impact on sporting activities.

Question 26

Each of the currently popular sports forms will undoubtedly undergo various modifications in the next generation or two. Identify the trends for professional sports, intercollegiate sports, and secondary school sports that are described in your textbook.

Question 27

Values are socially constructed and thus always undergoing change. Describe the societal values and trends that the textbook suggests may become the most popular in the twenty-first century. Describe the arguments that have been made about trends in sport values.

Question 28

Futurists claim that two forms of sports-technosport and ecosport-will play a prominent role in the sport of the future. Describe the main features of each.

Question 29

Summarize the varieties of new opportunities and equality discussed in Chapter 15 for special groups in sport.

Question 30

The last section of Chapter 15 is titled "A Troubling Trend." Describe the trend your textbook authors identify, the factors contributing to this trend, and ideas of your own about how this trend could be reformed or reversed.

Question 31

Explain how the rise of neoliberalism is connected with the rise of sport for development and peace (SDP) groups.