SRM 242 Final Exam JMU Guy
Norm - correct answer ✔✔A shared idea/expectation used to identify what is acceptable and
unacceptable in a social world
Formal norms - correct answer ✔✔established, written rules
Informal norms - correct answer ✔✔Unwritten shared understandings of how a person is expected to
think, appear, and act
Deviance - correct answer ✔✔When a person's ideas/traits/actions are perceived by others to fall
outside the normal range of acceptance in a society
Formal deviance - correct answer ✔✔• Violations of official rules/laws punished by official sanctions
• administered by people in positions of authority
Informal deviance - correct answer ✔✔•Violations of unwritten shared understandings punished by
unofficial sanctions
•administered by observers
Deviant underconformity - correct answer ✔✔•Based on disobeying/ignoring/rejecting norms
•involves subnormal actions
•cheating - sexual assault - coach physically assaulting ref
•punishment
Deviant over conformity - correct answer ✔✔•Based on unquestioned acceptance of norms or a leader's
commands
•supranormal actions
•over training - playing through pain - unhealthy eating behavior
, •praised, glorified
Ethic - correct answer ✔✔Set of norms used to guide ideas/traits/actions
Sport ethic (coakley) - correct answer ✔✔-dedication- to "the game"
•strive for -distinction-
- accept no - obstacles - in pursuit of success
- accept -risks- play through -pain-
Brutal body contact (smith typology of violence) - correct answer ✔✔Within the official rules of the
sport
Borderline (smith typology of violence) - correct answer ✔✔Violates rules but is routine and accepted
- late hit, hockey fight
Quasi criminal (smith typology of violence) - correct answer ✔✔Violates sports rules and possibly
criminal laws
- forceful blow to back of head
Criminal (smith typology of violence) - correct answer ✔✔Violates rules and is illegal
Figurational theory - correct answer ✔✔Balance between pleasure and restraint
-too little tension
• contest becomes dull
- too much tension
• excitement can pose a serious risk
Things violence enhances - correct answer ✔✔- status on team
- identity as athlete
Norm - correct answer ✔✔A shared idea/expectation used to identify what is acceptable and
unacceptable in a social world
Formal norms - correct answer ✔✔established, written rules
Informal norms - correct answer ✔✔Unwritten shared understandings of how a person is expected to
think, appear, and act
Deviance - correct answer ✔✔When a person's ideas/traits/actions are perceived by others to fall
outside the normal range of acceptance in a society
Formal deviance - correct answer ✔✔• Violations of official rules/laws punished by official sanctions
• administered by people in positions of authority
Informal deviance - correct answer ✔✔•Violations of unwritten shared understandings punished by
unofficial sanctions
•administered by observers
Deviant underconformity - correct answer ✔✔•Based on disobeying/ignoring/rejecting norms
•involves subnormal actions
•cheating - sexual assault - coach physically assaulting ref
•punishment
Deviant over conformity - correct answer ✔✔•Based on unquestioned acceptance of norms or a leader's
commands
•supranormal actions
•over training - playing through pain - unhealthy eating behavior
, •praised, glorified
Ethic - correct answer ✔✔Set of norms used to guide ideas/traits/actions
Sport ethic (coakley) - correct answer ✔✔-dedication- to "the game"
•strive for -distinction-
- accept no - obstacles - in pursuit of success
- accept -risks- play through -pain-
Brutal body contact (smith typology of violence) - correct answer ✔✔Within the official rules of the
sport
Borderline (smith typology of violence) - correct answer ✔✔Violates rules but is routine and accepted
- late hit, hockey fight
Quasi criminal (smith typology of violence) - correct answer ✔✔Violates sports rules and possibly
criminal laws
- forceful blow to back of head
Criminal (smith typology of violence) - correct answer ✔✔Violates rules and is illegal
Figurational theory - correct answer ✔✔Balance between pleasure and restraint
-too little tension
• contest becomes dull
- too much tension
• excitement can pose a serious risk
Things violence enhances - correct answer ✔✔- status on team
- identity as athlete
