Socioculture - Ethics And Deviance Flashcards
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What is the definition of ethics?
Moral principles that govern a persons behaviour or the conducting of an activity.
What is deviance?
Diverging from usual or accepted standards or behaviour.
What are the legal supplements?
- Sports drinks/bars/gels
- Vitamins and minerals
- Caffeine
- Protein shakes
- bicarbonate
- creatine
What are the advantages of legal supplements?
- can improve general health and well-being
- Can improve strength, stamina, rehydration and recovery
- Can provide energy or replenish phosphocreatine stores.
What are the disadvantages of taking legal supplements?
- Effectiveness based on questionable research.
- Little is known of the long-term effects.
- They may contain banned substances
- Goes against the spirit of the sport.
What are the illegal drugs and doping examples?
- anabolic steroids
- Beta blockers
- stimulants
- EPO
- Blood doping
What are the reasons why an athlete might use illegal drugs/doping?
- to improve performance, physiological and psychologically
- A desire to win at all costs
- Fame and fortune
- Pressure, perhaps from coaches and peers.
- To even the playing field
- I believe that they may get away with it
- Lack of education understanding the dangers and side-effects
- Poor role models
What are the consequences of using illegal drugs/doping to society?
- create negative publicity for sport and damages for reputation to society.
- Encourages criminal behaviour as PED are illegal substances.
What are the consequences of using illegal drugs on the sport?
- threatens a sports integrity and reputation
- Can cloud their successes of clean athletes
- Results that can’t be trusted
- negative role modelling
What are the consequences of using illegal drugs on the performance?
- can improve performance leading to increased fame and fortune
- Punishment.
- Damage to a sports persons reputation.
- Possible isolation from peers.
- Damage to body and mind
What are the strategies to stop the use of legal drugs and doping?
- stricter punishments
- More regular drug testing
- Better coordinated actions of anti-drug agencies.
- Develop the use of the athlete biological passport
- Increased funding and scientific research to try to keep drug testing ahead of drug taking
- use of positive role models
- Educate coaches and performers.
- Legalised performance enhancing drugs
What are the causes of violence for players?
- when at all costs
- High importance of contest
- Drugs and steroid use
- Violent nature of the game
- Emotional or anger management issues
- Sticks or other implements that can be used as weapons that players have access to during play.
What are the potential causes of violence in spectators?
- overcrowding or poor spectator provision
- Peer pressure, mass culture diminished responsibility of crowd.
- Imitating violence on the pitch
- hooliganism
- Drugs or alcohol
- Poor performance refereeing decisions or rivalries.
What are the implications of violence to society?
- cost to the taxpayer in terms of extra policing
What are the implications of violence to the sport?
- scandal/bad publicity
- Can lower attendance at sporting events.
- Negative role modelling.
What are the implications of violence to the performers?
- Injury.
- bans/disqualification
- Damage to reputation
What are the 12 strategies to prevent violence by performers?
- more or better qualified officials at all levels
- Change or adapt rules
- Stricter punishments
- Use psychology.
- Use playback technology
- Retrospective punishments
- Emphasis on Fairplay
- Substitute performance
- Temporary removals/bin
- Peer pressure
- Role models
- Educational campaigns
What are the 11 strategies to prevent spectator violence?
- use CCTV to find culprits.
- Stricter punishments.
- Improved use of police intelligence.
- Improve spectator facilities.
- Separate fans.
- Increase police/steward presence
- More responsible media coverage/less hyping up of events and rivalries.
- Promote events as family entertainment
- Early start times avoid drinking
- passing specific laws 
What is the sport and gambling background?
- Sport lends itself to gambling
- Gambling is a worldwide business
- legal gambling
- Increase in sport gambling
- The role of the Internet
What is the five types of deviance in gambling?
- bribery
- gambling
- Spot betting
- Match fixing
- Spot fixing
Define bribery
An illegal payment or reward intended to influence the outcome of a sporting contest or decision.
Define gambling
The wagering of money on the outcome of a sporting event which can lead to issues such as match fixing and corruption when linked with illegal or unethical practices.
