Abstract

This study through the notion of conventional thinking, seeks to understand and resolve the problem of fixed reproduction in the violence culture that is accepted in the name of voluntary compliance among college athletic departments. Violence in college athletic departments indicates that it acts as a mechanism for maintaining the pertinent group between a‘vertical relationship’ (i.e., leaders and athletes) and a‘horizontal relationship’(e.g., solidarity). The social actors performing the violence are reproduced through habitus embodied by the social condition and the environment according to their hierarchy. In other words, there exit a vertical and horizontal relationships among the college athletic departments from which athletes acquire the violence culture and change themselves as forwarders from beneficiaries. As a result, such a violence culture is inherited and simultaneously reproduced in the name of tradition. Therefore, paradigm shift should be made from the authoritarian vertical relationship to the universal relationship that values the respect for human ‘diversity’in order that the violence culture can be abolished. All human relationships in a democratic society must be guaranteed to have interchangeable and interdependable horizontal communication between the social members.

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