Unit 13 Flashcards

Question

True or false: The Games will create amazing infrastructures that will beautify the city and will be available to the population afterwards

Answer 1

Often false. Infrastructures are left empty and are left to rot causing immense damage on the environment.

Answer 2

Yes, tourism will increase for the Games, but do you think tourists don’t go to Paris outside of the Olympic Game period? Also, studies show that citizens often leave their homes for the duration of the Games to get away from the noise and traffic. So, it ends up being the same.

Answer 3

False. Look at where the Games were held. No one heard of London before they had the Games? Or Tokyo? They already have international recognition.

Answer 4

- The interdependence of the economy, cultures and global populations caused by the exchange across borders of goods, services, and technologies and by the flow of investments, people, and information.

Answer 5

Especially with the ease of travel and the internet. We receive and process information from all over the world. And it is those external influences that build our internal values which determine our identity.

Answer 6

Our beliefs, our living conditions, and our actions

Answer 7

An economic system in which private sectors possesses and controls properties (such as professional sport leagues) according to their own private interests.

Answer 8

To make a profit $$$

Answer 9

A way of viewing and organizing the world; an ideology. Specifically, an economic, political, and social ideology based on fundamental principles

Answer 10

• Unregulated support of free-trade and of the markets (see it as an economic free-for-all). • The promotion of individualism and competition. • The reducing of governmental influence.

Answer 11

Because they are based on competition and don’t want politics involved

Answer 12

McDonalization points towards the homogeneity (similar, all the same) of cutlural choices and people’s experiences caused by globalization. - Simply put, there are McDonalds everywhere.

Answer 13

The main issue here is that this homogeneity is also present in third-world or poorer countries. For example, McDonalds is an American company so the American head or owners make a profit on the backs of the poor. We see the same occurrence with Walmart and Amazon.

Answer 14

- Glocalization is innovative; the locals adapt and innovate global forces (as you can see on the right). - The media, imported products, and imported materials offers an opportunity to local identities to demonstrate their uniqueness. - something related to a specific country or city

Answer 15

That capitalism is too strong

Answer 16

• The creation of global transport. (Airplane) • The establishment of a world bank and of free-market strategies. The exchange of money across borders is simpler. • The development of neoliberalism. • The amplitude of transnational corporations and brands, as well as the presence of international associations (think IOC). • The rapid development of the internet and social networks.

Answer 17

Companies have shops that make people work for terrible money and in terrible conditions and then the company sells their products for a lot of money

Answer 18

Some brands are known everywhere so the other brands don’t have a chance to build their company (Nike) Some athletes are so well known that other athletes don’t get recognized by media (Lebron James) More countries are part of the FIFA than the UN

Answer 19

• Certain sporting events are available across the entire world via satellite. • The best players in the entire world are united to participate in certain events. **not true cuz only the countries that have the needs to participate do • The equipment used is conceptualized in America for example, but assembled in Asia. • That same equipment is sold globally! • We see the presence of several transnational corporations investing in international sport. A lot of money. • We see a tight development of the sport-media complex.

Answer 20

People Technology Economy Media Ideology

Answer 21

The international movement of people – workers, tourists, immigrants. In sport: the international movement of players. A chinese basketball player moving to the US to play in the NBA. Trading on a global sport market.

Answer 22

The flow of machinery and equipment produced elsewhere. Think sporting equipment.

Answer 23

The transfer of money across the entire world. Global banks

Answer 24

The transfer of images and information between countries. Think the Olympic Games and its global broadcast.

Answer 25

The exchange and flow of values associated to or against certain movements. Think feminism in some Asian countries; it doesn’t work. For sport, think boycotts: different countries have different ideologies so it makes other countries not want to participate when they host the Olympic Games

Answer 26

• Availability of resources. Think in terms of equipment and funding. • Training methods. • Knowledge about sport medicine and sport science (kinesiology). • Efficiency of sport organizations. • The nation’s status in international sport (first place, more money.) • Migration of coaches, athletes, administrators (towards a successful country). • Accessibility to infrastructures. • The presence of the media. More visibility, usually more funding.

Answer 27

More sports look the same all over the world Everything will end up looking the same

Unit 13 Flashcards

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