The social science of sport : a critical analysis
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The social science of sport : a critical analysis
（Sport in the global society, . Contemporary perspectives）
Routledge, 2015
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
In this book questions about definitions and demarcations of sport science are discussed. Not the least the many normative ideas of sport as good or as bad are problematized in relation to the academic field. These ideas permeate sport science in ways that are not seen in other academic fields like history, sociology or law. In addition, if and if so, in what ways sport science influence social science in general. Does sport science bring new questions in relation to issues like "what makes a society possible" or "what is a human being"?
This book was published as a special issue of Sport in Society.
Table of Contents
1. The position and relevance of sport studies: an introduction 2. Thoughts on being the gadfly in the sport sciences ointment: building the road to meta-theoretical research creation 3. (Re)Occupying a cultural commons: reclaiming the labour process in critical sports studies 4. Slowing the social sciences of sport: on the possibilities of physical culture 5. From criminality to creativity: how studies of surfer subcultures reinvented invention 6. Modern sport between purity and hybridity 7. Re(con)fusion of law and sport in light of 'seriousness' and 'trivialization'
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