SOCY 122 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: 1952 Summer Olympics, Sport 5, Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Social Sci, Edu and Soc Work - Sociology
• Course: SOCY 122
• Professor: Rob Beamish

Document Summary

Claims-makers must successfully publicize the behaviour they see as problematic: claims-makers must convince others that certain people or behaviours are dangerous, doesn"t need a factual basis, but they must convince other claims-makers, 2. Claims-makers must shape a conception of the problem they identify: they want to convince people that there is not only a general problem, but a specific one of particular concern, 3. Claims-makers must build a consensus around a new moral category: one can see all of these elements in the current social construction of steroid use in sport. Steroid use is not confined to youths in their late teens: steroid use can begin before adolescents become teenagers and the patterns that lead to steroid use are developing before that, 2. Although some adolescent steroid users are athletes, at least as many users are non-athletes: non-athletes tend to engage in some form of risk behaviour associated with steroid use, 3.