Ethics, Deviance and Doping

What Ethics, Deviance and Doping covers

Ethics, Deviance and Doping is examined in both papers, since Component 1 and Component 2 can each examine any of the content. It covers fair play, sportsmanship and gamesmanship, deviance, Coakley's sports ethic and violence, reasons for doping and its ethics and WADA, drug testing and biological passports.

The 4 subtopics

Each one has its own page.

• Fair play, sportsmanship and gamesmanshipFair play, sportsmanship and gamesmanship with examples from football, cricket and tennis, the image of a sport, unwritten rules, governing bodies and the conflict with the desire to win.Open →
• Deviance, Coakley's sports ethic and violenceDeviance, relative and absolute deviance, Coakley's sports ethic, over-conformity and under-conformity, commercialisation and sponsorship, on-field violence, spectator violence and football hooliganism.Open →
• Reasons for doping and its ethicsDoping and why performers dope, the desire to win and pressure from others, banned methods, why doping is unethical, the harm to health, sport and clean performers, legalisation and young athletes.Open →
• WADA, drug testing and biological passportsThe World Anti-Doping Agency and what it publishes, UK testing, collecting a urine sample, A and B samples, out-of-competition testing, the whereabouts system, biological passports, stored samples and sanctions.Open →

What you need to know

Answer each one before you reveal it.

Take Ethics, Deviance and Doping further

The same content, four other ways.

Commonly confused

Pairs that lose marks when they are blurred together.

• Sportsmanship vs Gamesmanship

  Sportsmanship: playing fairly within the written and unwritten rules. Gamesmanship: bending the rules to gain an edge without breaking them outright.

• Over-conformity vs Under-conformity

  Over-conformity: following the ethic of sacrifice and risk to a harmful extreme. Under-conformity: rejecting or ignoring the norms and rules.

• Relative deviance vs Absolute deviance

  Relative deviance: behaviour judged wrong only by the norms of a particular setting. Absolute deviance: behaviour judged wrong in every setting.

Questions from this topic

Each one with the model answer underneath.

1. 1

   What is meant by fair play?

   Model answer

   Fair play is competing within the rules and spirit of a sport. Fair play means respecting opponents, officials and the result.

2. 2

   What is sportsmanship?

   Model answer

   Sportsmanship is playing fairly, within the written and unwritten rules. A sporting performer shows respect and generosity to opponents.

3. 3

   What is gamesmanship?

   Model answer

   Gamesmanship is bending the rules to gain an advantage without breaking them outright. Time-wasting and distracting an opponent are examples.

4. 4

   Give an example of sportsmanship in football.

   Model answer

   A player kicks the ball out of play so an injured opponent can be treated. The other team returns possession at the restart.

5. 5

   Give an example of gamesmanship in cricket.

   Model answer

   A fielder may sledge a batter with remarks to break their concentration. Some teams also slow the over rate deliberately.

6. 6

   Give an example of gamesmanship in tennis.

   Model answer

   A player may take a long medical time-out to disrupt an opponent's momentum. The break is legal but against the spirit of the game.

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Ethics, Deviance and Doping revision questions

What does Ethics, Deviance and Doping cover in Eduqas A-Level Physical Education?

4 subtopics: fair play, sportsmanship and gamesmanship, deviance, coakley's sports ethic and violence, reasons for doping and its ethics and wada, drug testing and biological passports. Each one has its own page with questions and model answers.

How is Ethics, Deviance and Doping organised?

By the Eduqas A550QS specification, subtopic by subtopic, so it matches the order you are taught it in.