2022 eass & ISSA World Congress of Sociology of Sport

Session

PS 37: Methodology in Sports Sociology 1

8 Jun 2022, 15:30

Description

Chair: Hannes Gropper
Room: A3M04, Building A Level 3

120. The people’s understanding of ‘sport’: Insights from a survey experiment

Michael Mutz

08/06/2022, 15:30

In survey research, people regularly respond to questions addressing their sporting activities. However, the meaning of the term ‘sport’ is anything but clear in its colloquial, but also in its scientific use. The paper thus explores if a common understanding of what ‘sport’ is exists in the population and if not, how much the people’s understanding of sport differ from each other. A factorial...

121. Reviewing the discourses analyses of sport - a scoping review

Ulrik Wagner, Katie Sveinson

08/06/2022, 15:50

For several decades, social science and humanities researchers have pointed to a linguistic turn (Rorty, 1967), and the interest in the social and cultural role of language coincided with the rise of post-structuralism. One prominent approach to the qualitative analysis of language and semiotics within a post-structuralism tradition is discourse analysis. Discourse analysis merges theory and...

122. Bridging research cultures? The challenges of inter and trans disciplinary research

Belinda Wheaton

08/06/2022, 16:10

This paper takes up the challenge posed by the organising committee to explore the potential contributions of sport sociology to inter-disciplinary research. It is widely argued that to understand complex social processes and real-world challenges, new research strategies are required that rethink how science and society relate to each other, and how relevant knowledge is understood and...

123. Towards an appropriate theory of causation for the sociology of sport

Gareth Wiltshire

08/06/2022, 16:30

Background to the phenomenon: The sociocultural phenomena that are of interest to sociologists of sport are complex, but they do not manifest at random. However, to say that such events have clear ‘causes’ is similarly unsatisfying given our commitments to ontological and epistemological assumptions that often depart from the natural sciences and our commitment to social theories that...