PSYC 241 Lecture Notes - Lecture 37: Social Control
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Conventional view: high school sport provides educational benefit rules, teamwork, eligibility requirements. Less popular view: high school sport detracts from educational goals poor sportsmanship, breaking rules. Sports a primary focus of attention in hallways. Strong belief that sports participation has a positive impact on educational goals. Consequences of sport for high school: promotes unity among students, minimizes conflict between students and teachers, social control functions, reproduction of cultural values, linked to educational outcomes (minimum gpa) Importance for small communities (rural) versus large communities (urban) Status: socially defined position within a large group or society, hierarchically ranked from low to high. Being part of a team, striving for common goal normative pressures. Relationship between participation and academics is difficult to study because it is. Difficult to separate other social factors difficult to compare athletes and nonathletes. Contradictory evidence about connection between participation and character. Boys and girls without character drop out of sports; those with character remain in sports.
