Say it ain't so, Joe: sociology of knowledge analysis of the Black Sox Scandal
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ABSTRACT:
This article traces the development of the great baseball scandal of 1919 - 'The Black Sox Scandal'. The authors set the tone for the scandal by explaining man's inherent need for a stable environment ('externalization'). They then trace the development of the scandal, from the status of professional athletes to their fear of retiring with little to show for their careers. The article highlights comments from players involved, quotes the slave-like conditions of the guilty White Sox' team and comments on gambling in pro sports as it exists today. Examines the effectiveness of theoretical application to explain sport reality. Presents a treatise on the sociology of knowledge as a basis for examining the deliberate and successful attempt by eight major league baseball players to lose the 1919 World Series. Suggests that the acts under investigation and prediction were magnetized by the binding effect of reasoning by sociology of knowledge. The baseball player is revealed as homo socius. It is suggested that the objectified and subjectified social order of cheating occurs due to the product of the players' human thought.
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