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Deviance

Occurs when a person's idea, traits, or action are perceived by others to fall outside the normal range of acceptance in society

Formal deviance

Violations of official rules and laws

Informal deviance

Violations of unwritten customs and shared understanding

Norm

Assured expectation that people used to identify what is acceptable and unacceptable in the social world

Absolutist approach

Assumes that social norms are based on essential principles that constitute an unchanging foundation for identifying good & evil and discussing right from wrong

Formal norm

Written expectations and rules

Informal norms

Unwritten customs

Constructivist approach

Deviance occurs when ideas, trades, and Action fall outside socially determine boundaries that people use to determine what is acceptable and unacceptable in a social world

Sport ethic

A set of norms or standards that are used to guide and evaluate ideas, trait, and action in the social worlds created around power and performance sports

Violence

The use of excessive physical force, which causes or has obvious potential to cause harm or destruction.

Aggression

Verbal or physical actions grounded in the intent to dominate, control, or do harm to another person

Types of on-the-field violence

1. Brutal body contact


2. Borderline violence


3. Quasi criminal violence


4. Criminal violence

Learning to control violence through sports

Violence among spectators

Controlling crowd violence


Facts about gender ideology

Current IOC approach to sextesting

Title IX (9)

No person in the United States out, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any educational program or activity receiving federal financial assistance.

Informal and alternative sports

Organized around the values and experiences of boys and young man



Participants say that inclusion is based on skill, guts, and aggressiveness, not gender



Most girls and young women feel unwelcome and alternative sport culture

Gender inequality in alternative sports

Title 9 does not apply to the sports



Girls and woman face greater challenges accessing the sports than a boys and men



Boys and men often control access to the sports

Woman coaching and administration

Barriers to gender equality

1. Budget cuts and privatization of sport programs


2. Resistance to government regulations


3. Few models of women in position of power


4.A cultural emphasis on "cosmetic fitness" for women


5. Trivialization of women sports


6. Male dominated /identified/center sports organizations

Homophobia

A generalized fear when intolerance of anyone who is in clearly classifiable as a heterosexual male or female.

Strategies to achieve equality

Using the law and engaging in grassroots activism



Showing boys and men that they benefit from gender equality and recruiting them as allies in making changes



Changing the way we do sports

Strategies to promote gender equality

Boys and men as agents of change

Social class

Categories of people who share an economic position in society based on a combination of their income, wealth, education, occupation, and social connections

Social stratification

Structured forms of economic inequalities that are part of the organization of everyday life.


These inequalities influence life chances.

Life chances

Similar odds for achieving economic success and power in society. Varies from one social class to another in the social stratification system.

Class relations

The ways that social class is incorporated into the organization of our everyday lives.

Class ideology

Interrelated ideas and believe that people use to understand economics qualities, identify their class position, and evaluate the impact of economic inequality on the organization of social worlds.

Power in sports

Power is based on organizations and rest in the hands of white men who control them.



Athletes and coaches have little or no power to control the organization of sports.

Social class and sport participation

Social class and class relations influence who plays sports, who watches sports, who consumes information about sports, and the information that is available

Class and gender relations

Challenges faced by retiring athletes

Reconstructing identity in terms of activity, abilities, and relationships unrelated to sports.



Renegotiating relationships with other so as to gain feedback and support for new identities

Cultural of risk

In which they accept the uncertainty, danger, and consequences of the action.

Continuous traits

Skin color, height, brain size, no sweat, leg length, leg length ratio, number of fast twitch muscle fibers.

Over conformity versus under conformity

Hubris

Pride driven arrogance and an inflated sense of self-importance that leads one to feel separated from and are superior to others

Fascade of conformity

That is, athletes who conform to norms in public, but violate them in private where that Action is rare

Institutional corruption

Established, widespread and taken for granted processes and practices that, if publicly known, would be seen as a moral, and ethical, or illegal to the point of destroying public trust in its leaders

Emotional contagion

A process through which social norms are formed rapidly and are followed in a nearby spontaneous manner by large numbers of people

Intimidation

Refers to words, gestures, and action that threaten violence or aggression

Terrorism

A special form of violence designed to intimidate or target populations of people

Orthodox gender ideology

Ideas and beliefs associated with this two sex approach. Female or male