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Course Title
Sociology of the
Everyday
SOCI 204
Sport &
Performance
Psychology
Calendar Course Description
patient as a physical body, yet the social reality of the lived body
is always present. The individual, and his/her family and
friends, as well as nurses and other medical practitioners, play a
key role in negotiating the contested territory between these two
realities. Also, there are many different bodies—the body of the
child, the pregnant woman, the athlete, the surgical body, the
body in pain—and all are culturally framed.
Our everyday lives are taken up with a myriad of practical
accomplishments, and we routinely carry out activities and
conversations and patterns often without thinking about how the
world is constituted and negotiated in such work. Sociology of
the everyday topicalizes the ways in which we as social actors
animate the world and establish its order and sensibility through
our ongoing practices, while simultaneously acting as if the
world is something outside and external to us. It makes a
distinction between our orientation as everyday actors, who are
caught up in successfully accomplishing and achieving what we
need to do in the course of a day, and our orientation as social
inquirers, who are interested in understanding the
accomplishment of the world in and through what we routinely
do and say. The readings and examples developed in this
course will make vivid how we stand as both the everyday
person who is immersed in the ‗natural attitude‘ of daily life and
the social inquirer who seeks to raise the question of what in
such practices and talk is taken-for-granted. In this difference
and tension, the ‗seen but unnoticed‘ qualities and
characteristics of everyday life can be brought into view,
allowing us not only to orient to what actually occurs in our
practices of living, but to what also could be. Sociology can
then serve as an imaginative aid, inviting us to temporarily
bracket our common sense orientations in the interest of
reflective understanding.
This course examines the history, purpose, discipline, and basic
techniques of sport and performance psychology. Students will
be introduced to the basic concepts of sport and performance
psychology including the characteristics of peak performance
and barriers to performance. In addition, students will be
exposed to the psychological skills training (PST) techniques
used to enhance performance in a variety of settings. Topics
will include but are not limited to anxiety and stress
management, self-confidence, motivation, goal-setting,
leadership, communication, imagery, focus and concentration,
and group dynamics.
Upper Strange Science In the last century, the landscape of science has been covered
with some of the strangest ideas and discoveries in history: The
Big Bang, Time Travel, Baby Universes, Black Holes,
Wormholes, Superstrings, Warped Space-Time, Faster-Than-
Light-Travel, Parallel Universes, Quantum Strangeness,
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