The Importance Of Adult-Controlled Sports

#1 Informal player-controlled sports differ from organized adult-controlled sports because of the way player-controlled sports allow people to learn how to organize games, cooperate with peers, form teams, develop rules, and take responsibility for following and enforcing rules. One downside of player-controlled sports is that they do not always learn the strategies of the sport and have trouble managing relationships with adult authority figures. Organized adult controlled sports keep children organized but they also affect how the friendship between children during the games. Adult controlled sports have a heavier focus on competition and performance whereas player controlled sports are more concerned with play and the importance of equal …show more content…
A constructionist approach to deviance first starts in our society when people create norms by interacting with each other and determine what is socially acceptable and what is not. Once there are assumptions of what is acceptable then people create boundaries for socially accepted actions and if someone goes outside of those boundaries they are considered deviant. Different people have different views on what being deviant is but in a constructionist approach it is like there is a bubble of norms that everyone should follow and the more you stray away from those norms the more deviant people are. For example in sports there are socially acceptable and unacceptable actions. An acceptable action would be a baseball player sliding into second base and taking out the shortstop to break up the double play almost everyone is fine with that action because they all agree that it falls into there socially acceptable boundaries of what is deviant. But if a player is running home and purposely runs over the catcher at full speed, many people would see that as a deviant unacceptable action not only because it is against the rules but because it would fall outside of the boundaries of socially created norms. Through the constructionist approach people see deviance differently but there are common boundaries and if broken deviance …show more content…
Athletes tend to be violent so that it makes them seem more manly and more likely to be accepted by their peers. In football big hits are highly accepted and it causes athletes to be more violent. So in whatever sport they play, they are more likely to over-conform and be violent due to the fact that they feel the sense of need to become a man and do whatever they need to do to seem more manly. This mainly happens with males that link their identities as athletes with being a man. Secondly is commercialization, this influences violence by the way it puts athletes on a big stage for everyone to see. Athletes want to entertain and in some cases they become more violent due to the pressure that is put on them to create a good show. Some athletes get paid to use violence and commercialization influences them heavily to be more violent but to other sports like football, sometimes they are encouraged to do violence such as laying a big hit and taking a player out of the game. Lastly is gender ideology, this influences violence in sports due to the issues of masculinity in sports. Athletes will often become more violent to prove a point that they are not soft or weak. Also they will become more violent because they want to be accepted by others so they will do things that they wouldn't necessarily do to prove how masculine they are. Most violence