SPORTING ETHICS

Under-and over conforming to the sporting ethics

Under-and over conforming to the sporting ethics

Introduction

A large volume of literature has come forth in the last few years pertaining to ethical considerations in sports. This steadily increasing volume of researches substantiates the fact that the relevance of ethics in sports is finally coming to light. However, an overview of the most recent research that comes forth in this regard serves to show that researchers are giving concern to the over and under-conformity of ethics in sports; particularly in the case of ethics pertaining to ethnicity. This discussion will highlight the reasons because of which individuals under and over-conform to sporting ethics.

An analysis revealed that individuals who tend to over-conform to sporting ethics generally tend to do so because they consider it to be an issue that influences their self-esteem. Individuals who tend to over-conform to sport ethics are generally those who seek acceptance from their peers (Boxill, 2003). They consider it necessary to keep everybody around them happy and avoid confrontations as much as they possibly can.

Discussion & Analyses

In many ways, the theoretical development of theory in the sociology of sport parallels the process outlined above. Separate and often unreflective concerns with structure and agency in the early stages of development eventually lead to a more sophisticated synthesis of the two in more recent research. A separate subdiscipline of sociology recognised as the sociology of sport began to emerge in the mid-1960s, in the United States. Its origins were in both sociology and physical education, its practitioners were often advocates for and fans of sport and, as a consequence little of the preliminary work was critical in nature. This is problematic since sociology is a 'critical' science - everyday assumptions about social relations, and aspects of social life that are 'common sense', are clear to analysis to determine whether such assumptions. The development of the sociology of sport can be traced through three relatively distinct phases of theory, interpretation and explanation: namely, reflection, reproduction and resistance.

Like all human behavior, so the sport has rules that regulate their activity. In this sense, we regard the sport as a person who can take pleasure in the same year the sport, but as someone committed to all its personnel structure. This commitment may take the form of a contract that actually has both moral and affective factors. The first relies on compliance with the rules for the game and the group, while the latter it relies on personal factors deposited in the game and how they feel affected each of the team members in relation their captain, their peers, the order of win or lose, the opponent (in our opinion the "complementary"), not as an enemy but as an essential additional, time for the game can be made even if the question a single person.

The "obstacle to overcome" is reliant on different characteristics of sport and the athlete. The weight, gravity, volume, the atmosphere, endurance, etc. are just some of the physical proper elements of ...