SEP 271 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Steve Rushin

• School: WVU
• Department: Sport and Exercise Psychology
• Course: SEP 271
• Professor: Alexander Sturges

Document Summary

Members of society have not been adequately socialized toward adopting prescribed norms and values. Society becomes ill when its parts don"t behave properly . Competition among groups and interests for power and resources results in unequal social arrangements. No other area of human endeavor offers the opportunity to confront social issues as consistently as sports. steve rushin. Social tension arises from the mass denial of access to various forms of power. Functionalist theory: strengthen social norms through socialization and moral education (families, schools, churches, etc. ) Conflict/cultural theory: eliminate inequality, injustice, and discrimination among social classes. Canada and the united states have a long history of violence. Every ethnic minority in north america has experienced and been involved with violent actions. Us culture continues to promote and glorify violence as a means to solving social problems. If it bleeds, it leads newspapers or television often lead with stories of gruesome violence.