Doping in the professional sport in the nature of social deviant phenomenon

The aim of this thesis is description of doping in the nature of social deviant phenomenon of the current top-level sport and spilling over into the recreational and general social area. Formally, the text is divided into three main parts, the first is largely theoretical focus - made entry into questions of the surveyed phenomenon first with progressive definition of basic concepts, categories and terms of this issue and then with a comprehensive historical description of the evolutional aspects of their real social representation, then examine for the attitudes to the main topic in light of socio-psychological and purely sociological aspects and finally sees the social phenomenon from the perspective of cultural and ethical value system. The second section provides a brief summary of existing empirical studies with are closely connected with research focus that concern issues of doping in sport or society in general. This section of the text is instrumental to elucidation of the contemporary worldwide and exclusively Czech doping situation and together with the starting point for subsequent comparison with the own empirical investigation. The third part will describe a newly implemented research using a combination of quantitative and qualitative methods to reflect the issue in terms of categories doping..