Psychological and Cultural Approach to Violence in Sports

Psychological

When psychiatrists want to investigate the factors that lead to violent behavior, they often first turn to examining the personality structure of the individual. The social and cultural environment created by the individual's personality structure, if it is a negative environment, may make the individual prone to violence. People with personality disorders cannot establish healthy relationships with others, their families, their immediate and distant environment, society and culture, because of the conflict and contradiction in their psychological lives, and they cannot suppress, control or prevent behaviors arising from instincts and impulses. For this reason, they get angry and angry unnecessarily and unnecessarily. They show aggression and commit acts of violence towards nature, people and objects.

When we look at theoretical approaches, we see that aggression is evaluated in terms of the foundations of human psychology, developmental theories and social learning theories. Developmental theory evaluates love in early parent-child relationships as protecting the individual from violence and stopping violence. Childhood experiences based on punitive discipline and abuse prevent the development of internal control. It is prone to authoritarian control and adopts the examples of the developmental period.

In terms of social learning theories, adopting and appreciating the roles presented as models and solving problems helps children and young people to adopt these models. The most fundamental role in this regard is played by films and visual and written media. There are studies showing that violence occurs in the dimension of learning behavior, on the one hand, and stereotypes, compliance and obedience behavior, on the other hand. For example, Scott's animal experiments reveal that animals can be trained to show violence.

Socio-Cultural Approach

The three main sociological approaches that help us understand violence are culture, social interaction, and economics. In the approach to social structure, aggressive violence is considered to be related to social constraints such as poverty, being unlucky in life and not having acquired qualities. There is data that looks at the issue from this perspective and reflects that socioeconomic level is an important determinant. Some subgroups show high rates of aggressive violence. In these groups, violence emerges as a social norm.

It is possible to encounter the phenomenon of violence in all societies. Although every society has its own forms of violence, thanks to mass media, common features in the application of violence have begun to become widespread. In fact, individual violence has begun to come to the fore in our age. Individuals are exposed to the phenomenon of violence, which is prominent in today's societies, in various ways. However, each society shapes violence in its own unique way, with its own realities, its own cultural structure, its own rules and regulations, and its own social understanding. On the other hand, social mobility and social change play a role in the socio-cultural dimension of violence. In the socio-cultural dimension of violence, it is clear that many factors are in a mutual relationship in the formation of violence.