Ethics and sport: a case study with female volleyball athletes.

Abstract

Sport socializes values that integrate people into society, promoting cohesion and social order within the framework of ethical principles that underlie, at least theoretically, sports practices. However, driven by action logics not always consistent with codes of ethics and fair play, athletes, coaches, managers and other sports agents often adopt deviant behaviors, including in contexts of athlete training. This communication emerges from a study on the values of sports ethics in the training of athletes. Here, we focus only on two objectives: a) to know the values of sports ethics espoused by the volleyball athletes of the studied team; b) characterize the practices of coaches aimed at training their athletes with values of sporting ethics.