Social Norms In Sports Research

To fully understand the effect sports has on society one must first fully understand norms and how they influence the population. A norm, like any other psychological phenomena, is “a construct that has widespread usage because it helps describe and explain human behavior” (Cialdini and Trost 151). Common norms become understood by groups and constrain behavior without force while adapting to the environment or situation that is present. These social norms, or social roles, which generally emerge out of interaction within the group, become the expected behavior and sanctions of deviance are controlled by the social network at hand rather than any legal system. All social norms are generally formed from a combination of: societal expectations