Kinesiology 2250A/B Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Flagrant Foul, Cockfight, Extreme Measures

• School: Western University
• Department: Kinesiology
• Course: Kinesiology 2250A/B
• Professor: Michael Heine

Document Summary

Violence in sports reflects natural tendencies among males in society while others say that men use violence in sports to promote the idea that physical size and strength is a legitimate basis for maintain power over others. It is possible that we have actually underestimated the amount of violence associated with sports. Violence in the use of excessive physical force, which causes or has the potential to cause harm or destruction. Violence is often but not always accepted and defined as legitimate when police, athletes are perceived to be protecting people, reproducing accepted ideologies or pursuing victories in the name of others. Pushing a ref after giving you a card is a violence based on rejection of norms. But a football player tackling and breaking someone"s ribs is violence based on conformity to norms and it often defined as appropriate by fans and is taped and approved by everyone.