A Critical Realist Theory of Sport
A Critical Realist Theory of Sport

Author: Graham Scambler

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2022-12-30

Total Pages: 206

ISBN-13: 1000815331

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This book argues that sport in the era of global or financialised capitalism has undergone a process of fracturing, which requires a re-assessment of longstanding and consensual accounts of traditional-to-modern sporting activity. Considering rival concepts of sport, it presents detailed, illustrative studies of various types of sporting or athletic activity – including soccer, cricket, rugby and track and field – to advance an alternative sociological understanding of sport rooted in the philosophies and theories of critical realism and critical theory. As such, A Critical Realist Theory of Sport will appeal to scholars of sociology and social theory with interests in sport, research methods and critical realist thought.

Sport Coaching Research and Practice
Sport Coaching Research and Practice

Author: Julian North

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2017-07-14

Total Pages: 327

ISBN-13: 1317620445

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Research shapes our understanding of practice in powerful and important ways, in sports coaching as in any other discipline. This innovative study explores the philosophical foundations of sport coaching research, examining the often implicit links between research process and practice, descriptions and prescriptions. Arguing that the assumptions of traditional single-disciplinary accounts, such as those based in psychology or sociology, risk over-simplifying our understanding of coaching, this book presents an alternative framework for sports coaching research based on critical realism. The result is an embedded, relational and emergent conception of coaching practice that opens new ways of thinking about coaching knowledge. Drawing on new empirical case study research, it demonstrates vividly how a critical realist-informed approach can provide a more realistic and accountable knowledge to coaching stakeholders. This knowledge promises to have important implications for coaching, and coach education and development practices. Sport Coaching Research and Practice: Ontology, Interdisciplinarity and Critical Realism is fascinating reading for any student or researcher working in sports coaching, sport pedagogy, physical education, the philosophy or sociology of sport, or research methodology in sport and exercise.

Dialectic and Difference
Dialectic and Difference

Author: Alan Norrie

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2009-12-04

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 113526077X

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Dialectic and Difference is the first systematic exploration of Roy Bhaskar’s dialectical philosophy and its implications for ethics and justice. This text is essential reading for all serious students of social theory, philosophy, and legal theory.

Reconstructing Sociology
Reconstructing Sociology

Author: Douglas V. Porpora

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2015-09-03

Total Pages: 253

ISBN-13: 1107107377

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A general critique of sociology, particularly sociology in the United States, from a critical realist perspective.

Studying Organizations Using Critical Realism
Studying Organizations Using Critical Realism

Author: Paul K. Edwards

Publisher: Oxford University Press (Us)

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 417

ISBN-13: 0199665524

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The book provides a practical guide to the application of Critical Realism (CR), an increasingly popular philosophy of social science, in empirical research projects. Each purpose-written chapter reviews major social science research methods and contains extended illustration of how to conduct inquiry using CR.

Realism and Social Science
Realism and Social Science

Author: R. Andrew Sayer

Publisher: SAGE

Published: 2000-02-11

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 9780761961246

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Realism and Social Science offers an authoritative guide to critical realism and an assessment of its virtues in comparison with other leading traditions in social science. It is illustrated throughout with relevant and accessible examples.

Explaining Society
Explaining Society

Author: Berth Danermark

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2001-11-22

Total Pages: 233

ISBN-13: 0203996240

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This book will be immensely valuable for students and researchers in social science, sociology and philosophy in that it connects methodology, theory and empirical research. It provides an innovative picture of what society and social science is, along with the methods used to study and explain social phenomena.

Critical Realism
Critical Realism

Author: Margaret Archer

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-06-17

Total Pages: 784

ISBN-13: 1136287256

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Critical realism is a movement in philosophy and the human sciences most closely associated with the work of Roy Bhaskar. Since the publication of Bhaskars A Realist Theory of Science, critical realism has had a profound influence on a wide range of subjects. This reader makes accessible, in one volume, key readings to stimulate debate about and within critical realism. It explores the following themes: * transcendental realist * the theory of explanatory critique * dialectics * Bhaskar's critical naturalist philosophy of science.

Routledge Handbook of Qualitative Research in Sport and Exercise
Routledge Handbook of Qualitative Research in Sport and Exercise

Author: Brett Smith

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-09-13

Total Pages: 1205

ISBN-13: 1317646908

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The last two decades have witnessed a proliferation of qualitative research in sport and exercise. The Routledge Handbook of Qualitative Research in Sport and Exercise is the first book to offer an in-depth survey of established and emerging qualitative methods, from conceptual first principles to practice and process. Written and edited by a team of world-leading researchers, and some of the best emerging talents, the book introduces a range of research traditions within which qualitative researchers work. It explores the different methods used to collect and analyse data, offering rationales for why each method might be chosen and guidance on how to employ each technique successfully. It also introduces important contemporary debates and goes further than any other book in exploring new methods, concepts, and future directions, such as sensory research, digital research, visual methods, and how qualitative research can generate impact. Cutting-edge, timely and comprehensive, the Routledge Handbook of Qualitative Research in Sport and Exercise is an essential reference for any student or scholar using qualitative methods in sport and exercise-related research.

Moral Agency within Social Structures and Culture
Moral Agency within Social Structures and Culture

Author: Daniel K. Finn

Publisher: Georgetown University Press

Published: 2020-05-01

Total Pages: 131

ISBN-13: 1626168016

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Christian ethics has addressed moral agency and culture from the start, and Christian social ethics increasingly acknowledges the power of social structures. However, neither has made sufficient use of the discipline that specializes in understanding structures and culture: sociology. In Moral Agency within Social Structures and Culture, editor and contributor Daniel K. Finn proposes a field-changing critical realist sociology that puts Christian ethics into conversation with modern discourses on human agency and social transformation. Catholic social teaching mischaracterizes social evil as being little more than the sum of individual choices, remedied through individual conversion. Liberation theology points to the power of social structures but without specifying how structures affect moral agency. Critical realist sociology provides a solution to both shortcomings. This collection shows how sociological insights can deepen and extend Catholic social thought by enabling ethicists to analyze more precisely how structures and culture impact human decisions. The book demonstrates how this sociological framework has applications for the study of the ecological crisis, economic life, and virtue ethics. Moral Agency within Social Structures and Culture is a valuable tool for Christian ethicists who seek systemic change in accord with the Gospel.