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The social science of sport : a critical analysis / edited by Bo Carlsson and Susanna Hedenborg.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Sport in the global society. Contemporary perspectives.Publisher: London : Routledge, 2015Copyright date: ©2015Description: xii, 117 pages : illustrations ; 26 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1138900672
  • 9781138900677
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.483 23
LOC classification:
  • GV558 .S63 2015
Contents:
The position and relevance of sport studies : an introduction / Bo Carlsson and Susanna Hedenborg -- Thoughts on being the gadfly in the sport sciences ointment : building the road to meta-theoretical research creation / A.J. Schneider and M.M. Williams -- (Re)Occupying a cultural commons : reclaiming the labour process in critical sports studies / Malcolm MacLean -- Slowing the social sciences of sport : on the possibilities of physical culture / Michael Silk, Jessica Francombe and David L. Andrews -- From criminality to creativity : how studies of surfer subcultures reinvented invention / Karl Palmås -- Modern sport between purity and hybridity / Kalle Jonasson -- Re(con)fusion of law and sport in light of 'seriousness' and 'trivialization' / Bo Carlsson.
Summary: "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."--Publisher's website.
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This book was published as a special issue of Sport in society.

"The chapters in this book were originally published in Sport in society, volume 17, issue 10 (December 2014)."--Page ix.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The position and relevance of sport studies : an introduction / Bo Carlsson and Susanna Hedenborg -- Thoughts on being the gadfly in the sport sciences ointment : building the road to meta-theoretical research creation / A.J. Schneider and M.M. Williams -- (Re)Occupying a cultural commons : reclaiming the labour process in critical sports studies / Malcolm MacLean -- Slowing the social sciences of sport : on the possibilities of physical culture / Michael Silk, Jessica Francombe and David L. Andrews -- From criminality to creativity : how studies of surfer subcultures reinvented invention / Karl Palmås -- Modern sport between purity and hybridity / Kalle Jonasson -- Re(con)fusion of law and sport in light of 'seriousness' and 'trivialization' / Bo Carlsson.

"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."--Publisher's website.

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