Violence in Contemporary Sport Flashcards

Flashcards on Violence in Contemporary Sport

Norm

A shared expectation that people use to identify what is acceptable and unacceptable in a social world.

Formal Norms

Official expectations that take the form of written rules or laws.

Informal Norms

Customs or unwritten, shared understandings of how a person is expected to think, appear, and act.

Deviance

When a person’s ideas, traits, or actions are perceived by others to fall outside the normal range of acceptance in a society.

Formal Deviance

Violations of official rules.

Informal Deviance

Violations of unwritten customs and shared understandings.

Absolutist Approach

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

Constructionist Approach

Deviance occurs when ideas, traits, and actions fall outside socially determined boundaries that people use to determine what is acceptable and unacceptable in a social world.

Sport Ethic

Cluster of norms and related behavioral practices that people use to define what it means to be an athlete.

Hubris

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

Violence

The use of excessive force that causes or has the potential to cause harm or destruction.

Brutal Body Contact

Use of physical force during formal space and time of game/match/contest.

Borderline Violence

Prohibited by rules, but which is more or less condoned by everyone involved.

Quasi-criminal violence

Actions that violate the formal rules of the game, public laws, and even criminal laws.

Criminal violence

Violence that is so outside the norm that it is handled by law enforcement

Proscribed violence

The skills required to win require some amount of physical violence