A Feature Of Sports Is That They Are _____.

Question: A(n)_______ is a shared expectation that people use to identify what is acceptable and unacceptable in a social world.

Answer: Norm

Question: ______ occurs when a person’s ideas, traits, or actions are perceived by others to fall outside the normal range of acceptance in a society.

Answer: Deviance

Question: Which of the following aspects of norms often make studying deviance tricky? (Check all that apply.)

Answer: -Norms differ from one social world to another.

-Norms vary in importance.

-Norms take different forms.

Question: An athlete was disqualified by the World Anti-Doping Agency for using a banned performance enhancement drug during the Olympics. The athlete’s actions exemplify _____.

Answer: formal deviance

Question: In what context is it important to study deviance in sports?

Answer: In the context in which it occurs without expecting that a single theory will explain all cases

Question: Identify an accurate statement about norms.

Answer: Norms are violated when deviance occurs

Question: It is difficult to use studies of deviance in other contexts to understand what occurs in sports because norms are _____.

Answer: applied and enforced differently in sports

Question: Norms exist in all social worlds and serve as the standards that _____.

Answer: people use to identify deviance

Question: The attitudes and actions of athletes who often overconform to norms widely accepted in society as a whole are termed as _____.

Answer: supranormal

Question: Formal norms:

Informal norms:

Answer: