SOCIOL 2T03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Hubris
26 Apr 2019
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E. g. a win at all costs mentality can encourage cheating. Constructionist approach to studying deviance in sport: constructionist approach to deviance combines critical and. Norms are socially constructed rather than absolute truths: 2. Deviance is socially constructed by people negotiating limits of tolerability and what exceeds them: 3. People with power to impose sanctions can influence definitions: 4. Most actions, traits, ideas in a given social world fall within an accepted range. Those outside involve deviant under-conformity or over- conformity: deviant underconformity, actions based on ignoring or rejecting norms. E. g. dropping out of sports, late for practice, player chooses to not do additional training with the team: deviant overconformity, actions based on uncritically accepting norms and being willing to follow them to extreme degrees. Peds to win at all costs, team first causing lost relationships with family/friends. Use of peds as deviant: athletes have long attempted to use peds as a way to get ahead of the competition.
