Critical Thinking & Thinking Critically KINE1000 Lecture Notes

Critical Thinking & Thinking Critically KINE1000: Sociocultural Perspectives in Kinesiology ©Nakamura, 2024 Yuka Nakamura, PhD Associate Professor School of Kinesiology & Health Science Do not share or reproduce without permission Agenda Introduction Sociological imaginatio...

Critical Thinking & Thinking Critically KINE1000: Sociocultural Perspectives in Kinesiology ©Nakamura, 2024 Yuka Nakamura, PhD Associate Professor School of Kinesiology & Health Science Do not share or reproduce without permission Agenda Introduction Sociological imagination Structure/Agency What does this have to do with Kinesiology? Do not share or reproduce without permission  Foundational to KINE 1000 Course Description Critical Course Learning Objectives Mind Mapping Assignment Thinking Foundational to the 21st century : What workplace (Kivunja, 2014) Foundational to higher education is it? (Giroux, 2002) higher education should be a place “where students gain a public voice and come to grips with their own power as individuals and social agents” (Giroux, 2002, p. 432) Do not share or reproduce without permission Critical Thinking, Generosity & Empathy “It’s not a kind act to allow problematic or even destructive ideas to pass unchallenged, but we can [challenge these ideas] with generosity and empathy” (Justice, 2018, xxi). Do not share or reproduce without permission Recall: Goals of Sociologists (Safai, 2024) To describe and explain our social worlds To identify social forces and factors in our lives and the lives of others in context How? By exercising our sociological imagination Do not share or reproduce without permission Sociological imagination: What is it? A mindset that allows us to: Connect our personal troubles to broader social issues (Mills, 1959) Connect biography to history by seeing the relationship between events in our lives (our biography) to events in society (history) (Mills, 1959) Recognize “the interdependent relationship between who we are as individuals and the social forces that shape our lives” (Witt, 2014, p. 3) Do not share or reproduce without permission Sociologic al Imaginati on Exercise Which urinal? (Paul, 2006) Do not share or reproduce without permission Purpose of “Which Urinal?” exercise To demonstrate how “the details of human life are often built within the larger features of society” (Paul, 2006, p. 7) To activate your sociological imagination Do not share or reproduce without permission  A way to bring into focus the connection between who we are Sociologic and broader social forces and how “our options are shaped by the al positions we occupy” (Witt, 2014 p. Imaginati 23) Other examples: on Reading: Paradkar Song: Ruth B. If I have a son Do not share or reproduce without permission  Foundational to KINE 1000 Course Description Course Learning Objectives Mind Mapping Assignment Critical Foundational to the 21st century Thinking workplace (Kivunja, 2014) Foundational to higher education : What (Giroux, 2002) higher education should be a is it? place “where students gain a public voice and come to grips with their own power as individuals and social agents” (Giroux, 2002, p. 432) Do not share or reproduce without permission Structure and Agency Agency: the freedom and the will to choose, and to act Agent: an individual with the freedom to choose and to act Do not share or reproduce without permission Structure: Definition Socially constructed ideas, principles, categories, and social institutions that constrain our freedom to choose and to act, and that limit our choices in the first place Do not share or reproduce without permission Structure/Agency Exercise Why do we see a decline in compliance with rehabilitation protocols for ACL reconstruction patients? Why do we see less participation in sport among seniors? “How can patients’ social needs be identified?” (Bloch & Rozmovits, 2021, p. E1696) Do not share or reproduce without permission Structure AND agency: Beyond the single story “The single story creates stereotypes, and the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete. They make one story become the only story” ( Adichie, 2009, 12:57) Do not share or reproduce without permission  Consider how social factors impact What our health and sport experiences: What are the implications of Rogers does this Communications having “a monopoly on have to Toronto sports” (Michael Goldberg, sports financing analyst) (Pereira, Colley & do with Rubin, 2024)? How did Kinesiology come to be a Kinesiolo regulated profession in Ontario? What are the implications of the gy? increased number of private medical clinics in Ontario? Why is that “the more medals Canadian athletes win, the fewer Canadians participate in organized sport” (Donnelly & Kidd, 2024)? Do not share or reproduce without permission References Please refer to the notes portion of this page for the citations used in this lecture. Do not share or reproduce without permission