Sports Related Violence And Its Effects On Society

Hockey has always been known to be a physical sport; it is full of body checks, hits from behind, sometimes the misuse of the hockey stick, and even fights. Now all off these are deemed acceptable by hockey fans to a certain extent. When a player swings his stick at another player and an injury occurs to the opposing man the instigator can usually expect to be penalized for a short amount of time, maybe even a suspension from the team for a few games. But when does this violent act on the ice become a criminal offence? Does it take for the recipient to break his neck, or maybe even loose his vision for us to take a serious look at what happened and realize that this is not what we are looking to watch when we sit down to watch a game.

Violence in sport has become far too commonplace. Aggressive sports such as football and hockey involve many aggressive tactics; however far too often do these aggressive tactics become overshadowed by deliberate acts of violence with the intent to cause bodily harm to an opponent. Many professional and non-profession athletes, as well as coaches, have adapted the mentality that winning is the common goal that all who participate in sport strive for and therefore feel that engaging in violent acts while competing should be permitted in achieving this goal. In sport winning is what each athlete strives for and seemingly they will consign in harmful acts of violence to achieve their goal. Former Boston Bruins player David Forbes was quoted “

Social facts have existence as a separate entity and it does not get affected by the individual behavior. In other words, social facts are the outcome of the state of the collective mind. The stress on the above feature makes sociology different from the rules of sociological method. Further, in favor of his argument Durkheim says that as an individual of the society the person inculcates automatically the behavioral deeds and actions with or without prior knowledge. No one is coercive on the imposition of laws and rules. If anyone goes against he is fined or a penalty is imposed for not obeying the laws of the society. To put forth his ideas in an effective manner he argues that society as a whole is an amalgamation of political platforms, partial groups such as literary schools, religious organizations etc which are bonded through certain sentiments. In his opinion, if the individual does not act in favor of a group and its principles that work for good cause and the betterment of the individuals and the society, he is made to face everything alone leading to atrocities and horrifying incidents.

Emile Durkheim, was a French sociologist. His theories and writings helped establish the foundations of modern sociology. Durkheim disagreed with most social theorists of the late 1800 's because they thought that individual psychology was the basis of sociology. Durkheim regarded sociology as the study of the society that surrounds and influences the individual. Durkheim explained his theories in his book The Rules of Sociological Method (1895). He says there is relationship between moral values and religious beliefs, which establishes unity in society.Emile Durkheim has long been viewed as one of the founders of the so called variables oriented approach to sociological investigation. Durkheim developed the theory that societies are bound together by two sources of unity. He called these sources mechanical solidarity and organic solidarity. Mechanical solidarity refers to similarities that many people in the society share, such as values and religious beliefs. Organic solidarity results from the division of labor into specialized jobs. Durkheim believed that the division of labor makes people depend on one another and thus helps create unity in a society. Durkheim studied thousands of cases of suicide to demonstrate his theory that a person commits suicide because of the

Along with Marx and Weber, Durkheim is considered one of the founding members of modern sociology. He is also credited with making sociology a science through his application of scientific and empirical research. Durkheim believed that sociology should be seen as a science separate from other sciences such as psychology, by studying “social facts” objectively as things. (Kiviston, 2011)

In the article, “The Cost of High Stakes on Little League Games” by C.W Nevius, he speaks about an issue that is afflicting youth sports games and that issue is the children’s parents. Nevius is concerned about their behavior because the amount of violence surrounding youth sports has exponentially grown and is starting to become commonplace. He states that many parents take it upon themselves to defend their children or get involved in the game and these actions unfortunately usually end violent because of how aggressive the parents are. Nevius presents examples that clearly affirm what he is saying, one of them includes a father who beat a hockey coach to death because he felt that the coach allowed rough play. He then describes how because

A Football player named Colin Kaepernick is the quarterback for the San Francisco 49er’s he is protesting racial injustice by not standing for the National Anthem.In August, National Football League (NFL) quarterback Colin Kaepernick began refusing to stand for the national anthem. Many people spoke out against the San Francisco 49ers player for his action. In the midst of a divisive election year, an important discussion about race class and violence in this country was almost abandoned by the news media.Then something surprising happened. Many in the sports world supported Kaepernick and his right to protest. Many did so even as they continued to stand with their hands over their hearts for The Star-Spangled Banner.

Everyone agrees that parent involvement is a good thing. But when the parent behaves inappropriately, it creates a poor environment for the children to learn and enjoy themselves. "Sideline rage" with parents behaving badly at youth sports events is such an epidemic, that 76% of respondents from 60 high school athletic associations said increased spectator interference is causing many officials to quit (Associated Press, 6/3/01). Parents are supposed to be role models, and the lessons they teach will determine their values and actions in the future. These days violence in children's sports is not limited to the playing field; overbearing parents are creating dangerous situations on the field.

In 1987, a junior hockey brawl involving Todd Betruzzi, broke out at the world junior hockey tournament. This fight was one that people will never forget, and personally, I find it to be quite disturbing. While watching the video, it was clear to see that this game was very chippy. Meaning, the players were hitting one another after the whistles, and I can imagine that they were saying some not so nice things to one another. I believe that considering the fact that Canada was up two goals in a gold medal game it, it could have been predicted that the game may have gotten aggressive. However, I would not have inferred that a fight clearing the benches would happen. I don’t think anyone could have predicted that, as it was unacceptable behaviour

Yet the literature supports possible reasons for why violent crime occurs, since participating in athletics is just their profession. It is suggested that people who become accustomed to using physical intimidation and violence in sport naturally revert to those behaviors when facing conflict outside of sport (Woods, 2016). However, athletes who do respond physically may be simply reflecting cultural upbringing that was established outside of sport. Sport may not be the cause of violence, but rather a result of the athletes’ upbringing or natural disposition, which led them to choose a violent sport. Rather than rely on information from the media, solid data such as rates of occurrence to compare with the data for other groups of people need to be discovered. In addition, drugs and alcohol must also be considered plausible factors of violence. We need to address this issue as a society and take steps to prevent violence (Hughes,

Even after no legal actions were taken in the case the NFL still punished Rice. Bad press offered fans to take their allegiance to the NFL away (Bowers ). This was a widely broadcasted and highly noted case and story for all reporters. This was not the only case of domestic violence in the ensuing time. James Cox, Ray Mcdonald, and Bruce Miller just to name a few were all accused of domestic Violence throughout this time..

Maybe football shouldn’t be played at all. The latest findings show that 81 to 91 percent of deceased National Football League players had signs of chronic traumatic encephalopathy. Alternatively, others think football should be made safer to reduce some of its violence.

The Players makes the chemical energy or the food into the energy in the stadium. Assistant coach is like the thing that stores the footballs and Gatorade for the team. The main coach is the person who calls out the orders in a game. The police is the people that give the stadium extra protection. The fans keep refilling the team's money supply. The General Manager is the person that keeps the team together by re-signing people to managing contracts. The security guards are the people that say who can go in with a ticket and who has no ticket that

Throughout his life, Durkheim has three main goals: establish sociology as a new academic discipline, analyze how societies maintain their integrity in the modern era, and lastly the practical implications of scientific knowledge. Durkheim’s contributions to social theory are expansive however the most impactful works were: The Division of Labor in Society and The Rules of Sociological Method. In his first work he introduced the concept of the breakdown of the influence of the societal norms on the individual, in his second work he stated what sociology is and how it should be acted out. Both of these works took social theory to a new level and they further help the individual understand his society.

Classical sociological theories have huge range and goals to deal with social phenomena. The roots of these classical theories belong to historical forces that developed during the early 1800s in Europe due to industrial revolution (Barbalet, J 2013). The chaos and social disorder was resulted through the series of such as French Revolution. Many important sociologists such as Emile Durkheim a famous functionalist played a key role in the development of sociology. Their ideas are still relevant to sociological theories today because they have a wide range of application to deal with important social issues. Emile Durkheim stated that social disorders produced by social changes can be reduced through necessary changes (Barbalet, J 2013). In