Sport and Deviance

Numerous studies have shown a direct relationship between sport and juvenile delinquency. ... Since sport creates behavior that is deemed desirable by Western society, sport can therefore act as an effective and powerful way in preventing and treating juvenile delinquency. ... The relationship of sport involvement to the use of drugs, alcohol, and tobacco is a result of values transmitted through participation in sport. ... Deviance usually occurs with the rejection of social norms; however another portion of deviance that has become a growing concern in sport today does not involve the re...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Most biological explanations of deviance argue that particular individuals are more prone to deviance than others because of their genetic make up. They say that genetically inherited characteristics either directly cause or predispose them towards deviance. ... Merton's sociological theory of deviance explains deviance in terms of the nature of society rather than the nature of the individual. Merton argues that deviance results not from "pathological personalities" but from the culture and structure of society itself. ... One of Merton's types of deviance, "innovation", has bec...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The student was killed and the movie was pulled out of the theaters and scene was edited out.2 With the problem of drugs appearing in the world of sports, many parents believe that if they place their children into a sport or any other extracurricular activity at an early age they will be spared from the world of drug use and maintain better grades in the long-run. ... He has since gotten help and overcome his addiction.9 Although one main aspect of athletes and deviance is drug abuse, it isn't the only type of trouble that they get into. ... Tyson is a professional boxer, who came into...

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• Grade Level: High School

I consider my actions deviant under the simple or social definition of deviance. ... I even started to feel as if it was a form of recreation, like a sport. ... The benefits started to attract me to repeat my deviance. ... Regardless of what a person does, some one will find deviance in another person's actions however it is important not to engage in actions that are both criminal and deviant. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Sport and aggressive behavior, Do sports create aggressive behavior, or simply attract people who are already aggressive? Aggression and sport have gone together as long as sports have been around, be it the players themselves, to the parents, coaches, or spectators, they just seem to be an inseparable part of each other. ... Coakley, is what people today have made a must part on sport. ... A majority of athletes who have been playing sports since they were little, have probably been pounded into their heads that to be successful in sport, you need to be aggressive, and at some times, unnecess...

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Everyone has encountered a "freak" at one time or another, whether at the mall or on the street or at a family function. They are most everywhere. When I use the term "freak" I don't mean it in any demeaning manner. I am referring to the outrageously dressed people in black ill-matched clothing, blue or green hair, wearing morbid make-up and pierced in every place imaginable. You know, those people you stop to stare at as you say, "Oh my God!" ...

• Word Count: 3405
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Although Asians and Asian Americans have been present on American television screens for decades, [1] few television series have featured Asian or Asian Americans in starring roles. Kung Fu (Warner Bros, ABC, 1972-1975), starring David Carradine as Kwai-Chang Caine, featured a white American actor as a bi-racial Shaolin priest in the Old West. Originally conceived as a vehicle for martial arts adept Bruce Lee, the series went to an actor with little physical ability, but with a knack for embodying a Hippie pacifism along with a reluctant, but devastating aggression On the lam from the la...

• Word Count: 9463
• Approx Pages: 38
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate