Sociology of Sport: Expanding Horizons in the Subdiscipline

Harris, Janet C.

doi:10.1080/00336297.2006.10491873

Cited by 17 publications

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“…In short, the consensuses maintain common points of engagement for advancing the academic community and understanding within the subdiscipline. The current diversity/complexity of knowledge domains rooted in a field can be conserved as prominent features, which are on-going and couple with ‘the energy and talents of active sport sociologists’, to present ‘a positive future’ on both sides of the Atlantic (Harris, 2006: 87).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Since the 1970s, scholars have narrated and tracked sociology of sport research patterns (e.g. Dunning, 2004; Harris, 2006; Ingham and Donnelly, 1997; Jackson, 2015; McPherson, 1975; Malcolm, 2012, 2014; Pike et al, 2015; Silk and Andrews, 2011; Snyder and Spretzer, 1974; Weiss, 2004; Young, 2016). These studies have mapped the evolution of subdisciplinary knowledge to qualitatively present self-examinations of how the field was socially constructed (Malcolm, 2014).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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An Atlantic divide? Mapping the knowledge domain of European and North American-based sociology of sport, 2008–2018

Tian

Wise

2019

International Review for the Sociology of Sport

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The sociology of sport has become a burgeoning subdiscipline in the 21st century. To assess knowledge domains and the status quo of the field in Europe and North America, this study uses CiteSpace (a bibliometric visualization software) to analyse 870 academic articles published in the International Review for the Sociology of Sport, Journal of Sport & Social Issues and Sociology of Sport Journal from 2008 to 2018. By mapping/examining core contributors, keywords, high citations/cited authors, major clusters and citation bursts, the findings echo John W. Loy’s ‘risk of critical mass’ calling for various citation analysis approaches. The study expands Jon Dart and Ørnulf Seippel’s recent topic model studies on subdisciplinary development in recent decades, contributing to informed discussions of geographical politics and research directions in the field. The scale and scope of this analysis is highly generalizable to assess pre-existing state-of-the-art research on the sociology of sport.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

An Atlantic divide? Mapping the knowledge domain of European and North American-based sociology of sport, 2008–2018

Tian

Wise

2019

International Review for the Sociology of Sport

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“…Several scholars point to the close connection between the positivist, value-free sociology and the origin of North American sport sociology (e.g., Harris, 2006;Ingham and …”

Section: Reflections On the Trajectory Of Exercise Research Within Spmentioning

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Assessing the sociology of sport: On sport and exercise

Markula

2015

International Review for the Sociology of Sport

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On the 50th anniversary of the ISSA and IRSS, Pirkko Markula, a leading poststructuralist scholar, assesses the trajectory, challenges, and future for sociology of sport research on exercise, fitness and physical cultures. The trajectory of more openly politicized examinations of power in sport as cultural studies entered Anglo-American sociology of sport in the 1990s coincided with an expanded focus on the cultures of physical activity and exercise, notably with critique of the feminine body ideal in the fitness industry. Key challenges for the future include mending a 'disconnect' in the tensions between critical analysis and actual physical activity education and practices, furthering scholarly commitment to interdisciplinarity, and for poststructuralist theorizing to reach beyond sport studies to serve as a platform for thinking differently about exercise practices and scientific understandings of the moving body.Keywords exercise, sports, sport sociology, the body, trajectory Although I identify as a sport sociologist, my research interest is not primarily sport, nor do I draw from theorists principally associated with the academic discipline of sociology. However, being located in sport sociology's relative margins has afforded me an excellent view to observe various events unfolding in our field. Inspired by the work of other sport sociologists as well as my own observations, I reflect specifically upon the role of exercise research in sport sociology. Reflections on the trajectory of exercise research within sport sociologySeveral scholars point to the close connection between the positivist, value-free sociology and the origin of North American sport sociology (e.g., Harris, 2006;Ingham and

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“…As an ongoing response to this question, we are in the midst of developing physical cultural studies, effectively, a synthesis of empirical, theoretical, and methodological influences drawn from, among other sources, the sociology and history of sport and physical activity, the sociology of the body, and cultural studies. In her comprehensive overview, Harris (2006) offered the conclusion that As long as there is agreement on conceptualizing "sociology of sport" to include a broad range of phenomena related to various forms of physical activity and societal conceptions of human bodies, and as long as it is inclusive of a variety of social science perspectives, this name will probably be acceptable to most. (p. 87)…”

Section: A Synthetic Physical Cultural Studiesmentioning

confidence: 98%