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Norms that are found in society are usually strongly based from a bias perspective
and is found vastly represented by the social media. There is what’s found
normal and not normal in our democratic society. We see a lot of hype in the news
about sports, our local teams making it to the play offs are huge. We all have an
idea that the winning team has been training well and coming up with great tactics to get
this far. We see the athletes a certain way, which is probably far from the truth, we put
this idea in our head like they were just born magically this great. Society often lacks the
truth behind what they are told because in reality we don’t really know what goes on off
the screen. I am going to talk about human performance enhancement in sports and why
it is recognized as something against the social norm.
Everyone in high school supported the schools hockey team, like every sport people have
their favorite player. We know that our favorite player is the best over all the other
players, they are always the one who takes home the goal for the team. We all have the
idea that he was given this gift from God and or has just been very well trained. Once we
found out he was on steroids all that changed. The idea in society on steroids has been
looked down upon for many years now, finding that it puts them ahead of other athletes
in an unfair way. Majority of society doesn’t even know what steroids contain, other than
what they can merely gather from the media. Vitamin D is a steroid but many don’t know
this because it hasn’t been broadcasting in a negative manner. It is shown that negative
overrides the positive, in this case study on steroids against the social norm it proves that
most of the data collected without further knowledge and research is usually in factual,
negative and false. Most of the news we hear in society is like broken telephone and not
many students had any real clue of what steroids really were.
We find that many people in society lack reality and this is because of their morals and
ethics that shaped their values. We find that people perceive information the way they
want it to be, which may be far from the truth. With this symbolic interactionism shapes
the way the viewer behave on a topic like steroids in their favorite sport. It includes the
social construction of the world around these roles. The truth is that anabolic steroid use
in sports can actually be traced back several thousand years back, dated around 1700BC
in ancient Greece. Although much of the science behind this was essentially nonexistent
and the practices based on pure speculation and conjecture, the basis was that ancient
athletes and the society they lived in valued the use of performance enhancing substances
and the win-at-all-costs attitude. The motivation for this win-at-all-costs attitude and the
overall sentiment of the ancient athletes to use anything that would assist them in winning
is essentially no different from the reasons why our modern athletes dope in sports today.
The symbol of steroid use in sports means something else in the contemporary social
issues, it is placed along the lines of drugs and anything that is unhealthily for the body.
Anabolic steroids are known to simply enhance the training and nutrition that the athlete
is already engaged in – they do not create massive muscular strongmen out of nowhere
with no regular training or proper nutritional habits.
The value of social norms has a strong sociological imagination, since everyone in our
high school was influenced by the personal experience it shaped our idea of the use of
steroids. I find that the perspective of the personal experience shape folkways and are
easier to grasp but the ones who make their own decisions and find fact in their research,
will be subjective to issues such as steroids in sports. The interesting thing about people
who are objective to this subject is that they are coming from an outsider perspective on
it., with little or no experience in sports.
Outsiders are less emotionally connected to the research therefore their value to this is
very low in importance. When we discuss socialization the agents such as family, school,
peers, community, legal system, general culture and mass media we know that these
features become an integral part of ones self. For instance, your family’s point of view on
steroids being used in sports can strongly affect your idea on the use as well, depending
on how much of an importance and influence they are to you. Schools have many rules
that are controlled by society’s laws, educational institutes are said to be small
communities. With that being said small communities have a common ethical standards
to what’s right and what is wrong. The feeling of belonging to the social norm is
important at this stage in life and people often follow what’s popular rather than what’s
right for them. The legal system effects people’s decisions because it controls society’s
functions, it is a stable, orderly system of coordinated structures. Things such as steroids
being only able to use with prescription now after being banned in 1990’s. Mass media is
collectively impacts all of society’s agents, it continuously keeps society in fear of many
things.
Gender socialization on steroids in sports is typically on males, not a lot of attention is
put on females on steroids in sports. The general culture of sports is masculine and
portrays true character of how a man should perform. This leads to anticipatory
socialization where the watchers are observing and mimicking the role of the athletes.
Taking steroids is seen as breaking social control and with involuntary resocialization it
takes place in a total institution such as schools.
citation:
Chaiet.D,2013. Article on steroids in sports, retrieved from website, Anabolic Steroids | Steroidal.com
and is found vastly represented by the social media. There is what’s found
normal and not normal in our democratic society. We see a lot of hype in the news
about sports, our local teams making it to the play offs are huge. We all have an
idea that the winning team has been training well and coming up with great tactics to get
this far. We see the athletes a certain way, which is probably far from the truth, we put
this idea in our head like they were just born magically this great. Society often lacks the
truth behind what they are told because in reality we don’t really know what goes on off
the screen. I am going to talk about human performance enhancement in sports and why
it is recognized as something against the social norm.
Everyone in high school supported the schools hockey team, like every sport people have
their favorite player. We know that our favorite player is the best over all the other
players, they are always the one who takes home the goal for the team. We all have the
idea that he was given this gift from God and or has just been very well trained. Once we
found out he was on steroids all that changed. The idea in society on steroids has been
looked down upon for many years now, finding that it puts them ahead of other athletes
in an unfair way. Majority of society doesn’t even know what steroids contain, other than
what they can merely gather from the media. Vitamin D is a steroid but many don’t know
this because it hasn’t been broadcasting in a negative manner. It is shown that negative
overrides the positive, in this case study on steroids against the social norm it proves that
most of the data collected without further knowledge and research is usually in factual,
negative and false. Most of the news we hear in society is like broken telephone and not
many students had any real clue of what steroids really were.
We find that many people in society lack reality and this is because of their morals and
ethics that shaped their values. We find that people perceive information the way they
want it to be, which may be far from the truth. With this symbolic interactionism shapes
the way the viewer behave on a topic like steroids in their favorite sport. It includes the
social construction of the world around these roles. The truth is that anabolic steroid use
in sports can actually be traced back several thousand years back, dated around 1700BC
in ancient Greece. Although much of the science behind this was essentially nonexistent
and the practices based on pure speculation and conjecture, the basis was that ancient
athletes and the society they lived in valued the use of performance enhancing substances
and the win-at-all-costs attitude. The motivation for this win-at-all-costs attitude and the
overall sentiment of the ancient athletes to use anything that would assist them in winning
is essentially no different from the reasons why our modern athletes dope in sports today.
The symbol of steroid use in sports means something else in the contemporary social
issues, it is placed along the lines of drugs and anything that is unhealthily for the body.
Anabolic steroids are known to simply enhance the training and nutrition that the athlete
is already engaged in – they do not create massive muscular strongmen out of nowhere
with no regular training or proper nutritional habits.
The value of social norms has a strong sociological imagination, since everyone in our
high school was influenced by the personal experience it shaped our idea of the use of
steroids. I find that the perspective of the personal experience shape folkways and are
easier to grasp but the ones who make their own decisions and find fact in their research,
will be subjective to issues such as steroids in sports. The interesting thing about people
who are objective to this subject is that they are coming from an outsider perspective on
it., with little or no experience in sports.
Outsiders are less emotionally connected to the research therefore their value to this is
very low in importance. When we discuss socialization the agents such as family, school,
peers, community, legal system, general culture and mass media we know that these
features become an integral part of ones self. For instance, your family’s point of view on
steroids being used in sports can strongly affect your idea on the use as well, depending
on how much of an importance and influence they are to you. Schools have many rules
that are controlled by society’s laws, educational institutes are said to be small
communities. With that being said small communities have a common ethical standards
to what’s right and what is wrong. The feeling of belonging to the social norm is
important at this stage in life and people often follow what’s popular rather than what’s
right for them. The legal system effects people’s decisions because it controls society’s
functions, it is a stable, orderly system of coordinated structures. Things such as steroids
being only able to use with prescription now after being banned in 1990’s. Mass media is
collectively impacts all of society’s agents, it continuously keeps society in fear of many
things.
Gender socialization on steroids in sports is typically on males, not a lot of attention is
put on females on steroids in sports. The general culture of sports is masculine and
portrays true character of how a man should perform. This leads to anticipatory
socialization where the watchers are observing and mimicking the role of the athletes.
Taking steroids is seen as breaking social control and with involuntary resocialization it
takes place in a total institution such as schools.
citation:
Chaiet.D,2013. Article on steroids in sports, retrieved from website, Anabolic Steroids | Steroidal.com
just do it, lol. Without expressed written consent.
