Breaking the racism barrier in college sports requires just as much bravery. Perhaps one of the most well-known icons in college basketball is the Texas Western men’s basketball team of 1955-1956. Before this team came along‚ college basketball was strictly a “white sport.” The Texas Western Miners team became the first college basketball team with an all-black starting five. This team was put under the national microscope‚ and performed to a higher standard than anyone expected.
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Explicit norms are rules that are clearly stated. Implicit norms are hard for people with difficulty with socially-based learning. Roles within groups are different tasks that different people perform and the specific accomplishments each is expected to attain (Baron‚ Branscombe & Byrne‚ 2009‚ p. 384). An example of an explicit role is a professor for a class. The students in the class play the explicit role in the course. The professor’s role is to guide and nurture their students. An implicit role
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Imagine being in love with someone so deeply that you want to spend the rest of your life with that person‚ and ask for his or her hand in marriage. But you aren’t able to because you and your lover are of same sex‚ and live in a state like Texas where gay marriage is prohibited. There is a loophole though‚ you do have the option of traveling one thousand miles to the closest state that allows you to wed. Initially‚ some people may think that’s okay‚ it’s just another adventure in your life right
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Deviant behavior can be defined as behaviors that are not the norm. Thus‚ it may differ from culture to culture‚ environment-to-environment‚ people to people and even time to time. What is a norm in one culture may not be a norm in other culture and in return‚ it will become a deviant behavior in that particular culture. For instance‚ premarital sex may not be emphasized in one culture but it is particularly emphasized among the Muslims and Christian. In their culture‚ it is consider a taboo to commit
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1. Tina attributes her poor performance on the quiz to her teacher’s inability to teach the material. However‚ she believes that other students who did not do well on the quiz failed because they did not study hard enough. Tina’s reasoning illustrates: a. the actor/observer discrepancy. b. the fundamental attribution error. c. self-fulfilling prophecy. d. ingroup favoritism. 2. Adriana was assigned to do a class project with Jim. Jim rarely spoke in class‚ and Adriana didn’t
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Basketball The game started brightly‚ we attack‚ they attack back‚ but this wasn’t just a normal game. This was a playoff match against our arch rival Riverbank High‚ in what was a repeat of last years finals. So far so good I was thinking to myself as I was supped off for the first time in the quarter‚ we were up by four points going into to the second half. All of the sudden they went on a scoring run and our defense completely gave out‚ in just the two minutes before the half the score
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is more acceptable to joke around and be yourself. These behaviors of our everyday lives are known as Norms. “Norms define how we behave in accordance with what a society has defined as good‚ right‚ and important‚ and most members of a society adhere to them” (OpenStax‚ 58). There are various ways to violate these Norms.
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can be either effective or ineffective because they can normalise either desirable or undesirable conduct. There are two types of social norms that affect human motivation: the injunctive norm and the descriptive norm. Injunctive norms express how the majority of people feel about a certain issue. For example‚ most people think that wasting water is bad. Descriptive norms describe what is done rather than what should be done. Cialdini outlines the situations in which the use of normative messages
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BASKETBALL Basketball Court Dimensions Length of a basketball court 94 feet (1128 inches) Note: Many high school and college courts are 84 feet. Width of a basketball court 50 feet (600 inches) Size of a basketball backboard Width: 6 feet (72 inches) Height: 3.5 feet (42 inches) Size of a basketball rim The diameter of the rim is 18 inches The top of the rim should be exactly 10 feet (120 inches) off the ground Distance from the backboard to the back of the rim 6 inches Note:
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An injunctive norm is a person’s general perception of how much people they find to be important value a performance or nonperformance of a behavior to be. The idea behind this is that if people think the ones they find important to value certain behaviors they will become more likely to perform those behaviors. In contrast‚ a descriptive norm is the person’s perception of whether other people perform the behavior or not. Therefore‚ when they view other people acting in a certain way they themselves
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