KINE 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Risk Society
6 Mar 2016
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Risk of injury in american football is 100: lifespan decreased by 20 years, pay individuals a great sum to participate and we support this risk, injured athletes paid 800 million dollars for their problems. Thrill of risk in sport body has limits. Pain and injury is viewed as normal in sport: ambivalence in sport circles, debate on how much pain there should be. Banning of checking in minor league hockey. (different views) Culture of risk: culture in which health-compromising norms and practices are accepted and re, pain and injury are markers of us, tolerance of pain injury is seen as good produced character. The uncritical acceptance/adoption of the sport ethic" promotes the culture of risk: when athletes proceed in deviant activity it is viewed as a negative (steroids, when athletes proceed in tolerating pain it is viewed as positive deviant. Strategies to deal with pain and injury are articulated as rules of conduct.
