Functionalist Theory
Conflict Theory
Interactionist and Critical Theory
Deviant Overconformity and Underconformity
Current Acts of Deviance in Sports
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Deviance occurs when actions demonstrate a rejections of cultural goals or the means of achieving them.
When does deviance occur?
100
Social order is based on economic interests and the use of economic power by those who own the means of production in society.
What is social order based on in conflict theory?
100
These theories mainly look at the idea that deviance in sports involves overconformity to the norms that athletes use to evaluate themselves and others.
What factor does the interactionist and critical theory mainly look at?
100
Deviant overconformity is actions based on uncritically accepting norma and being willing to follow them to extreme degrees.
What is deviant overconformity?
100
For the discovery of a photo that displayed him smoking pot.
Why was Michael Phelps recently considered a deviant athlete?
200
Most functionalists see deviance as a result of faulty socialization or inconsistancies in the organization of society.
What do functionalists see deviance as a result of?
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People who assume that all people act in their own interests and that people in power use their position to turn ideas of right and wrong into official definitions.
Who uses the conflict theory approach?
200
These theories highlight the meanings that people give to actions, traits and ideas and the ways that people use those meanings to construct their definitions of what and who is deviant.
What issues do these theories highlight?
200
Deviant underconformity is actions based on ignoring or rejecting norms.
What is deviant underconformity?
200
For the discovery of him using steroids during a recent baseball season.
Why was A-Rod recently considered a deviant athlete?
300
A problem with the functionalist approach is that is becomes difficult to identify deviance when there is a lack of agreement about the importance of various goals.
What is a problem with the funcionalist approach?
300
A problem with conflict theory is that deviance in sports is always assumed to be the result of biased norms and law enforcement processes controlled by wealthy owners and sponsor who convince everyone that their riles are the only rules
What is a problem with conflict theory?
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It acknowledges that norms change over time and from situations to situation so that it is possible for something or someone to be considered deviant at one itme or place and not at other times and places.
What is a key acknowledgement of the constructionalist theory?
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1. Playing sports is exciting 2. Being selected to play high performance sports depends on willingness to overconform. 3. Exceeding the norms increases excitement in peoples lives.
Why do athletes overconform?
300
The Pacers
Who were the Pistons playing when the deviant brawl broke out?
400
Another problem with a functionalist approach is that it leads many people to think that controlling deviance always calls for policies and programs that increase conformity.
What is another problem with the functionalist theory?
400
They assume that rules in sports reflect the interests of owners and sponsors ignore the interests of athletes and most fans.
What do conflict theorists assume?
400
People who assume that social reality contains absolute truths about right and wrong and good and evil.
Who rejects the constructionist approach?
400
Athletes who have low self-esteem Athletes whos see achievement in sports as their only way to get ahead Male athletes who link together their identies as athletes, such that becoming a man and an athlete are one in the same
Which athletes are likely to overconform to sports ethics?
400
About 85%
Approximitely how many baseball players are estimated to use steroids?
500
Functionalists think the approach to deviance is to kick out all the bad apples or to get tough.
What do functionalists think the solution to deviance is?
500
Athletes are viewed as victims of a profit driven system, in which progressive change requires rejecting and remaking the rules.
How are atheletes viewed in the conflict theory?
500
They cling to the notion of absolute moral truths and use it to make divide the world into good and evil and to make decisions about deviance and social control in everyday life.
What do people who use the abolutist approach cling to?
500
The term hubris stands for the Greek term used to describe an expression of self importance and the accompanying sense of being separate from and above the rest of the community.
What is hubris?
500
1997
In what year did Mike Tyson bite Evander Holyfield's ear off?
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