1.
As per the sociology concepts, it is believed that sport contributes to the perpetuation of male dominance.
2.
A large variety of organized participant and spectator sports were present during the colonial period in North America.
3.
Even though there was a great diversity among the cultures of Native Americans, only a few of the tribes engaged in physical activities.
4.
After the civil war, due to Emancipation Proclamation, the black people were given equal opportunities in sports such as boxing, baseball, and intercollegiate athletics.
5.
During the 1930-50 era the best amateur teams in basketball, baseball and football were company-sponsored teams.
6.
Bull riding was the first popular spectator sports.
7.
According to the Social Darwinism espoused by William Graham Sumner, winning is the reward of the superior individual and losing is the overt manifestation of inferiority.
8.
Both peer play and adult organized sports emphasizes opportunities for players to develop interpersonal skills and make decisions.
9.
The slogan "sports build character" has substantial research findings showing this to be true.
10.
High school sports programs are essential because they uniformly fulfill educational goals
11.
It is common practice among NCAA Division 1 institutions that the money earned from collegiate sports is used to help other parts of the university
12.
The first intercollegiate sport even in the U.S. was a rowing race between Harvard and Yale.
13.
Examples given in the chapter on intercollegiate athletics demonstrate clearly that college athletic programs have continued to be modeled after amateur athletics
14.
Your textbook authors suggest that one of the needed reforms in intercollegiate athletics is that athletics departments must be separated from their institutions as self-contained corporate entities
15.
Division 1 male athletes in the revenue producing sports have the lowest grades and graduation rates of any athlete category
16.
Existing studies on catharsis and physical activity indicate that vigorous physical activity does not act as catharsis
17.
For viewers of sporting events, viewing of aggressive sport action has been shown to decrease subsequent aggressive behavior
18.
The instinct and frustration/aggression theories ground agression/violence in biological explanations
19.
At all levels of sports, incentives exist for athlete to be violent
20.
Society's concept of masculinity is inextricably woven into agressive, forceful, physical behavior
21.
The validity and accuracy of drug testing has been established to the point that there is no longer controversy about drug testing.
22.
Use of performance enhancing drugs corrupts the essence of fair sporting competition
23.
Functionalist theory focuses on
A. 
The social bond that holds groups together
B. 
The social forces that pit group against group
C. 
Patterns of dominance and influence in society
D. 
How people give meaning to their lives
24.
High school sports would generally be an example of
A. 
B. 
C. 
D. 
E. 
25.
The tremendous popularity of sport in North America is most likely a consequence of
A. 
The conditions of mass society that encourage individuals to indentify with a cause
B. 
The emphasis by the media
C. 
The close relationship between North American sports and North American values
D.