Deviance occurs in sports when athletes do not conform to accepted standards of behavior. There are two distinct types of behavior:
Underconformity - behavior does not conform to the generally accepted rules of sport ( e.g., breaking team rules, school rules or competition rules such as use of profanity, hazing, excessive drinking of alcohol, arguing, etc.)
Overconformity - behavior that carries the standards too far when athletes go beyond the normal limits of effort in pursuit of success in high-performance sport(e.g., drastically altering food intake to gain or lose weight, using non - healthy supplements to improve performance); Excessive conforming may also take the form of following the rules and customs of sport too well so that athletes put high - priority on their sport and ignore their families, friends, or neglect their studies.
Main forms of deviance in sport :
- Rule breaking
- Violence
- Crime, corruption and sexual misconduct
- Racism and social discrimination
- Performance enhancement drugs
- Eating disorders
- Hazing
- Gambling
Notes taken by : Georgia Theodosiou
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