Sport and Physical Culture

An example of how sport has been used by international bodies such as the UN as a political solution to overcome global inequalities is the initiative known as:

McDonaldization refers to the ways in which:

Which of the following is NOT a good example of powerful interest groups promoting a return to an older era and social structure, with robust social divisions and borders?

Those who oppose globalization have often been associated with harbouring __________ views.

Some objectives of the Sport for Development and Peace initiative have included using sport to:

Which of the following is NOT true of scholarly discussions of globalization?

Which multination company became a key target of global anti-sweatshop activism?

In the text, which of the following approaches is considered to be an important cause of exacerbating economic inequalities in a global sense?

The process of glocalization is based, essentially, on the notion of _____.

When a Canadian tries to understand and interpret English Premier League soccer using her own local sensibilities and knowledge, this would be a good example of the process of _________.

Which of the following was NOT an outcome of global anti-sweatshop activism in the 1990s that targeted Nike's operations?

Which of the following would be the best example of an area that a student of post-colonialism might research?

Due to the rise and influence of transnational corporations, research and marketing increasingly occurs in more economically developed countries, while production, through cheaper and less-skilled labour, tends to take place in relatively poor countries. In the text, this set-up is called:

A way of seeing the world based on regulated support of free trade and markets; promotion of individualism and competition; and reduced social security and government influence in favour of capitalist markets, is a suitable definition for:

Choudry (2007) critiqued the anti-globalization movement, whereby people based in Europe, North America and Australia supported the campaigns and causes of people in the Global South, specifically because the people involved:

Of all the countries ranked in the UN Human Development Index with a life expectancy at birth of over 80 years, which one has, by far, the highest national income per capita score?

A large group of Pakistani immigrants who have settled in Edmonton would best be described by sociologists as an example of a/an _____.

The shift to a 'borderless life' has been made possible by all of the following developments EXCEPT:

Many of the countries with human development index scores in the bottom half, according to the UN Human Development Index, are in which continent?

If we can observe, through the process of globalization, that local cultures are losing their distinctiveness and our global culture appears increasingly similar, we might use the term _______ to describe this.