Violence And Aggression Analysis
In this essay I am going to be exploring the sporting environment being an arena for acts of violence and aggression and how they are permitted and given meaning through their association with the masculine ideals of toughness, heroism and sacrifice. As part of this a number of violent sports will be brought into the context of the essay. Also within the essay will include why these relate to the masculine ideals of toughness, heroism and sacrifice. It is important that this is discussed for a better understanding of the effects of violence and aggression within the sporting world and what consequence it is having on spectators as well as the growing ideals of the athletes/ participants.
Violence in most sport is condemned against the rules …show more content…
People often relate the relation between the two within team sports and unsanctioned violence while frowned upon within the rules of the game, from a team, coach and spectator point of view in certain sports some unsanctioned violence is actually praised. A good example of this is rugby union; the opposing team running towards the try line and an opponent makes a high tackle which in the rules of rugby union it is seen as very violent and dangerous. However the last man dealing with this out of impulse made a high tackle and saved the team from conceding a try, given praise from coaches for stopping the try, praise from the team for stopping the try and given praise from spectators for keeping the team in the game. The player who made the high tackle would be sin binned for ten minutes and therefore has sacrificed himself for the team to keep them in the …show more content…
It is the strong idea that real men play sports in this confrontational manner ( White & McTeer 1994). Within an article Written by Messner he wrote about how American football is one of the most violent sports to come out of America with its culture requiring self- sacrifice and pain ( Messner 1990). Dunning, after research into other major sports said that the likes of basketball, football and boxing also demonstrated how the major cause of player violence is largely due to subcultural constructions of masculinity (Dunning
Violence in most sport is condemned against the rules …show more content…
People often relate the relation between the two within team sports and unsanctioned violence while frowned upon within the rules of the game, from a team, coach and spectator point of view in certain sports some unsanctioned violence is actually praised. A good example of this is rugby union; the opposing team running towards the try line and an opponent makes a high tackle which in the rules of rugby union it is seen as very violent and dangerous. However the last man dealing with this out of impulse made a high tackle and saved the team from conceding a try, given praise from coaches for stopping the try, praise from the team for stopping the try and given praise from spectators for keeping the team in the game. The player who made the high tackle would be sin binned for ten minutes and therefore has sacrificed himself for the team to keep them in the …show more content…
It is the strong idea that real men play sports in this confrontational manner ( White & McTeer 1994). Within an article Written by Messner he wrote about how American football is one of the most violent sports to come out of America with its culture requiring self- sacrifice and pain ( Messner 1990). Dunning, after research into other major sports said that the likes of basketball, football and boxing also demonstrated how the major cause of player violence is largely due to subcultural constructions of masculinity (Dunning