Chapter 5
Deviant overconformity in sports is most effectively controlled by helping athletes to learn that sports are essentially pure and good activities.
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Deviant underconformity is dangerous because, in extreme cases, it is associated with unquestioned acceptance of a coach's rules.
False
In the chapter on deviance in sports, the author favors an absolutist approach when discussing and explaining deviance among athletes.
False
Institutional corruption occurs in sports primarily when athletes do not understand the rules published by the governing bodies of their sports.
False
Match-fixing and prop-fixing are defined as deviance in professional sports but not in NCAA sports.
False
Norms are important in all societies because they identify unchanging ideas about what is right and wrong in human behavior.
False
Overconformity to the norms of the Sport Ethic becomes a source of deviance in sports only when athletes reject the rules of their coach.
False
Research shows that athletes from high school through the professional level have higher rates of crime, academic cheating, and binge drinking than their peers who do not play sports.
False
Research shows that drug testing has become so efficient and widely accepted in recent years that drug and substance use among athletes has declined significantly.
False
Research shows that rates of on the-field and off-the-field deviance are out of control in sports today because athletes today lack character and are motivated by fame and greed.
False
. A "harm reduction" approach to doping control is based on the idea that athletes should not be allowed to compete until they are certified as "well" by independent physicians or medical personnel.
True
A constructionist approach to deviance in sports emphasizes that people in groups and societies create norms that identify what they will and won't define as acceptable actions.
True
Hubris is a form of pride driven arrogance that often characterizes groups in which deviant overconformity is common.
True
Studying deviance in sports presents unique problems partly because many of the actions accepted in sports may be defined as deviant outside sports.
True
The author concludes that the use of performance-enhancing substances is consistent with the culture of power and performance sports and the careers of elite athletes today.
True
The author explains that deviance in sports often involves overconformity to norms, rather than rejecting or not conforming to them.
True
