Chapter 8 - Sport Deviance

Question 1

oregon project

Answer 1

Nike’s sophisticated high performance training centre for marathon runners. includes costly high performance training equipment

Question 2

deviance behaviour

Answer 2

the ways in which particular ideas and ideologies about what constitutes deviant activities are socially constructed and enforced

Question 3

deviant dance

Answer 3

interaction, negotiation and debates among groups with different perceptions of whether a behaviour or characteristic is deviant and needs to be controlled

Question 4

research focus on deviance and sport

Answer 4

focus on groups institutions and regulatory agencies that create and apply labels of deviance, mortality and normalcy inspirit and society and restrict agency

Question 5

tolerable deviance

Answer 5

living with deviance and in a deviant environment

Question 6

contradictions in sport related ideology

Answer 6

regarded are purity and meritocracy but also a billion dollar industry focused on winning and spectacular performance

Question 7

Paralympic Games

Answer 7

took place In 1960, institutionalized according to values of prolympism, known to be the second largest multi sport event in the world

Question 8

rules and resources of the Paralympics

Answer 8

complex point system an formula that assigns a total point value to each person’s performance, so those with serious disabilities are less disadvantaged

Question 9

Oscar Pistorius

Answer 9

1. hoped to compete in 2008 Olympic Games but was ineligible due to artificial limbs
2. racing with prostheses were considered an advantage because they waste less energy

Question 10

positive deviance

Answer 10

deviance is not simply the failure to follow the rules and social norms that are understood as an overly enthusiastic adoption of a set of expectations that characterize activities

Question 11

Ben Johnson

Answer 11

1. won the 100 metre sprint in 1988 Seoul olympics
2. tested positive for anabolic steroids
3. lost medal, Fed. gov’t concluded that drug use is endemic in sport

Question 12

tour de france 1998

Answer 12

1. entire tour collapses after exposition of systemic doping
2. EPO was given to stimulate RBC production and improve amount of oxygen

Question 13

Russian doping

Answer 13

1. widespread evidence of state-sponsored doping between 2011-2015, especially during 2014 olympic games
2. IOC suspended Russia olympic committee from winter games but allowed athletes with a clean history to compete under the flag

Question 14

reason for the use of performance enhancing drugs

Answer 14

results of structure of the high-performance sport system that encourages and rewards using the most calculated means towards achieving a particular end such as winning

Question 15

goal-directed action

Answer 15

the desire to push human athletic performance to its limits and profit