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Through an extensive investigation into the sociological theory of motivation, it is found that the most challenging concept to harness in a motivational sense is the way people employ the behaviour as an individual effort. As Turner’s article does not exclusively focus on motivation for endurance sports in particular, it is backed and put into context with other sources to find how motivation is developed and utilised at the top end of the Tour De France as an endurance cycling race. Controlling one’s energy and self-drive motivation has proved to be of high importance in the argument of just how riders of the Tour De France exceed four thousand kilometres over twenty-one days.
As motivation lies at the stem of carrying out jobs/tasks and goals, this following example shows exactly why motivation is so important for every rider. For some riders, money takes precedence and dominates the motivational mind set of less fortunate riders due to the lack of wealth they may have, for others; more accomplished, sponsored and well funding riders, it is the ability and true desire to cross the finish line first ahead of 300 hundred professional athletes racing towards the same goal. These theories are argued among critics of the Tour De France as to why a rider actually races and has a drive to win. This leads to the reflection of various theoretical concepts of motivational behaviours and find gaps in the science behind the mental strength of the Tour De France Riders.
Winning, the overall goal for each an every team and rider in the Tour De France, what lies between the reality and the dream is the mind set of the rider and how he/she can develop the motivation to do so. But, why would a person want to race Tour De France, why put your body through so much pain and agony when there are just as good every day jobs available and training almost every day just to help a team member win a race? These are some questions raised when differentiating riders in the Tour De France, which reflect their goals, and attributes in a precarious form of opinion with critics and enthusiasts of the sport. However, when the sociological context of motivation comes into play, arguments and theories are heavily challenged through backed up research of theorists such as Turner and Hawthorne that have employed practical work to prove their hypothesis.
As motivation is the force that guides, initiates and maintains goal-orientated behaviours, this directly ties in with drive theory of motivation, riders in particular, are motivated to execute certain actions in order to reduce the internal tension that is cause by unaccomplished needs. This theory is beneficial when explaining behaviours that have strong biological component, in this case, the desire to win. The problem with drive and motivational theory is that these behaviours are not always motivated purely by psychological needs. Yet, through external factors such as training the physicals elements of the body and people that may have an effect on the riders mind, this will also help the person achieve the desired goal in theory.
Developments in Sociology of Motivation are argued over various concepts and understandings through different applications and methods of production in work, sport and other human activities that involve increased effort of physical and mental functions. In summary, the theoretical understandings of the studied behaviour is argued through many commendable theorists both with practical experiments and in depth research that are involved in different applications of everyday life, and in particularly, endurance cycling.