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.

A Critical Realist Perspective of Education
A Critical Realist Perspective of Education

Author: Brad Shipway

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2010-07-20

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 1134010540

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Explores the capability of critical realism to throw light on educational theory. This book investigates the convergence and divergence between two forms of critical realism. It outlines the key characteristics that are necessary for a theological position to claim the term 'critical realist'.

Critical Realism
Critical Realism

Author: Andrew Collier

Publisher:

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13:

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The work of Roy Bhaskar has had far-reaching effects in the philosophy of science and for political and moral theories of human emancipation. It shows how to overcome the atomistic and narrowly human-centered approaches which have dominated European thought for four centuries. In this readable introduction to his work, Andrew Collier expounds and defends the main concepts of Bhaskar's philosophy. The first part of this book looks at the philosophy of experimental science and discusses the stratification of nature, showing how biological structures are founded on chemical ones yet are not reducible to them. This paves the way, in part two, for a discussion of the human sciences which demonstrates that the world they study is also rooted in and emergent from nature. Bhaskar's concept of an "explanatory critique" (an explanation that is also a criticism, not in addition to, but by virtue of, its explanatory work) is discussed at length as a key concept for ethics and politics. Collier concludes by looking at the uses to which critical realism has been put in clarifying disputes within the human sciences with particular reference to linguistics, psychoanalysis, economics and politics.