---
title: "SSSUSS7: Deviance and Violence in Sports (Georgia Social Studies standard)"
code: SSSUSS7
cite_as: Georgia Standards of Excellence, Social Studies, SSSUSS7
subject: social_studies
grades:
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# SSSUSS7: Deviance and Violence in Sports

Analyze deviance and violence in sports.

- Subject: Social Studies
- Appears in: High School, https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/social_studies/high-school.md

## Expectations

- **SSSUSS7.a**: Analyze cheating in sports, the efficacy of punishments, and how that reflects mainstream society and culture.
- **SSSUSS7.b**: Analyze the use of performance enhancing drugs in sports, including its causes, physiological effects of the drugs, efficacy of sanctions, and scandals that changed contest outcomes.
- **SSSUSS7.c**: Identify scandals resulting from sports betting.
- **SSSUSS7.d**: Describe society’s concerns regarding violence, abuse, and aggression in sports.
- **SSSUSS7.e**: Evaluate unhealthy eating behaviors of athletes, including anorexia, bulimia, and weight cutting.

## Georgia Milestones coverage

No Georgia Milestones blueprint cites this standard.

Source: Georgia Standards of Excellence, published by the Georgia Department of Education at case.georgiastandards.org.