Based on looking at my previous posits and comments that I received, I've learned that I didn't define violence in my posits and so it could be construed in different ways by various people. My new posit
New posit: What, if any, is the causal relationship between the behavior that is a construction of social learning and the acts of physical aggression that occurs within and around sports?
In society, individuals are ranked in a hierarchy of winners and losers based on the criteria of societal status. Consequently, indviduals from highly regarded sectors of societies will be winners and individuals from low groups of society will be losers. In this world, sections of society are defined based upon the level of class that they present to others. Therefore, to be assigned a high level of class is to demonstrate that the individual can conduct one's self in a manner that is respectful of others. In effect, individuals who don't exhibit class display behavior that is unrespectful to others and is thus agrressive in either a verbal or physical form.
In a world where the class demonstrated is constructed by the society within which an individual grows up, individuals from these defined lower classes of society tend to exemplify this aggression more in the world. In sports, there are acts of aggression between athletes, between fans, and between fans and athletes themselves. Therefore, fans or athletes who demonstrate acts of aggression are more prone to being from lower levels of society as defined by their level of class.
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The structure of your post is great. You used implications to try to demonstrate a single causal link. However, it is extremely difficult to define a single factor in determining social status. You may want to go this route with your argument... people are a product of their environment. If someone becomes accustomed to an environment of violence, they will likely exhibit violence because of their conditioning
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