Exam 5: Deviance in Sports: Is It Out of Control

The model of a professional athlete's career shows that when athletes move from the amateur level to the professional level in a sport like cycling, they

Sport programs that are designed as "interventions" for "at risk youth" are seldom successful because they

According to the career model discussed in the chapter, when long time professional athletes retire from full time, year round training and competition and re-enter the "ordinary world," they

Information on institutional corruption in sports is scarce partly because gathering that information

The most effective way to control deviant overconformity is to

The people most likely to agree with the war on doping as waged by WADA and USADA are

When there is a collective sense of hubris on a team, it is likely that some athletes will

The author suggests that doping control will not be successful until

According to the author, winning is important to long time professional athletes because they

Historical data suggests that most substance use and abuse among athletes is due to

Research on normative overconformity suggests that if we wish to understand this form of deviance we must

It has become difficult to determine what actions are deviant and what actions are accepted parts of athletic training today because

When a basketball player dribbles the ball out of bounds during a game, she has

Deviance may involve underconformity or overconformity to norms.The author explains that deviance involving overconformity is

Anarchy is the social condition that exists when

The athletes most likely to overconform to the norms of the sport ethic are those who see achievement as their only way to get ahead and those who have

The sport ethic becomes a source of dangerous deviance in sports when

People using an absolutist approach tend to

Research on sport participation and general delinquency rates generally shows that delinquency rates among athletes are

Information from inside high performance sports suggests that doping is seen as