Sociology of Sport: Growth, Diversification, and Marginalization, 1981–2021

Coakley, Jay

doi:10.1123/kr.2021-0017

Cited by 10 publications

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“…Contributors to this special issue detailed the efforts of associations, like the International Sociology of Sport Association, which have internationalised their boards, diversified hosting of their conferences, and welcomed scholarship by non-English authors. As the recent data from Web of Science in this paper demonstrates, however, little appears to have changed despite the strategies adopted by sociology of sport associations and, as Coakley (2021) suggests, there needs to be more proactive initiatives to reduce the linguistic imperialism in the discipline.…”

Section: Web Of Science Journal Impact Factor (Jif)mentioning

confidence: 88%

‘Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted’: Searching for the value of metrics and altmetrics in sociology of sport journals

Olive

Townsend²,

Phillips

2022

International Review for the Sociology of Sport

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Metrics, and increasingly altmetrics, are a pervasive aspect of academic life. A proliferation of digital tools available have seen greater emphasis on the quantification of the ‘performance’ of individual journals. Although metrics and altmetrics are justified in terms of increased accountability and transparency, there are significant inequities in the ways they are deployed. Key among these is the unsuitability of many popular metrics for assessing publications in the humanities and social sciences, as the data, algorithms and systems which support them cater to authorship and citation practices of the various science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) disciplines. These issues are amplified for journals in the sociology of sport, which publish research by humanities and social science scholars whose work is quantified according to the standards of the health science departments in which they frequently work. In this discussion, we critically examine how common forms of metrics and altmetrics, including those produced by Web of Science, Scopus, Google Scholar, and Altmetric.com, are applied to available sociology of sport journals. We analyse and critique how different metric algorithms produce variable measures of performance for each of the journals in the field and reveal how other information available on these databases can augment our understanding of the sociology of sport publishing ecology. Far from advocating the value of metrics and altmetrics, our analysis is intended to arm scholars and journals with the information required to critically navigate the entanglement of metrics and altmetrics with neoliberalism, audit culture and digital technologies in universities.

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Section: Web Of Science Journal Impact Factor (Jif)mentioning

confidence: 88%

‘Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted’: Searching for the value of metrics and altmetrics in sociology of sport journals

Olive

Townsend²,

Phillips

2022

International Review for the Sociology of Sport

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“…SDP scholars have more than once noted the lack of interest and voice from scholars in the PRC [33,80], notwithstanding that this academic realm is deemed to be a burgeoning field in sports-related studies globally [102]. Given the ostensible language limitation resulting from SDP studies being mostly conveyed in English [55], there is a suggestion that this dearth might be due to an inability of English-based scholars to address non-English publications and vice versa [103].…”

Section: Lack Of Academic Interest In Sdp From the Prc And Research A...mentioning

confidence: 99%

‘Tiyu (体育)’ for Development and Peace? An Examination of Attitudes and Possibilities of the People’s Republic of China Regarding the Sport for Development and Peace (SDP) Movement

Bairner

Kawashima

2022

Sustainability

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The People’s Republic of China (PRC) has appeared to be inattentive towards the globally lobbied Sport for Development and Peace (SDP) movement that endeavors to leverage sport for non-sporting development, currently subscribing to the United Nations’ 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). By adopting the concept of ‘tiyu (体育)’—the supposed Chinese counterpart of ‘sport’—which also seeks to achieve wider objectives grounded on its premise of ‘body cultivation’, this paper proceeds with a text-based qualitative study incorporating document analysis and literature review to examine its current links to SDP. The findings suggest that: (1) While the national development foci of the PRC have demonstrated alignment with the SDGs, its tiyu policies have not. (2) Mainstream SDP projects have failed to be accommodated in the PRC, although some non-SDP tiyu practices have shown a commitment to SDP-desired outcomes. (3) The relative lack of interest in SDP in the PRC has not prevented some tiyu scholars from heeding this movement. Accordingly, this paper assesses the prospects of changing attitudes in the PRC toward SDP.

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“…Domain fragmentation is usually addressed with respect to disciplinary issues, but specialization of the activity type, usually in the form of sport versus exercise or physical activity, has also created barriers to department integration. For example, the macrolevel analysis of the sociology of sport continues to feel isolated (disenfranchised) within kinesiology (see Coakley, 2021). There is no programmatic emphasis in the sociology of physical activity and exercise and, with it, strong disciplinary ties to anthropology, evolution, psychology, and cultural studies of physical activity.…”

Section: The Activity Dimensionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Sport management is a professionally oriented specialization that is housed in both departments of kinesiology and business schools. The scholarly agenda tends to isolate it from the healthrelated specializations in kinesiology, but the clear focus on sport and business at the macro individual/societal level opens some common disciplinary ground with the sociology of sport (see Coakley, 2021). Moreover, the social/cultural analysis of the body in exercise and physical activity and, with it, the link to the other health-oriented specializations in kinesiology remain to be developed (see Lieberman, 2020).…”

Section: The Professional Dimensionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Reflections on Research in Kinesiology

Newell¹

2021

Kinesiology Review

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This paper provides reflections on the progress to date and current status of research in kinesiology. The accompanying overview articles in this special issue of Kinesiology Review show that the contemporary disciplinary/professional foci of kinesiology remain, by and large, the same as the initial research and teaching structures of 50 years ago, as outlined in the inaugural overviews. Nevertheless, within this prevailing disciplinary/professional structure, there have been many new developments in movement-related research, including the juxtaposition of novel alignments and integrations of certain specializations of kinesiology. There is general consensus that the quality and quantity of research in kinesiology have advanced substantially, albeit unevenly, on multiple fronts, both within and between the areas of specialization. The research agenda in kinesiology has benefitted from the growing realization of the centrality of human movement and physical activity in contributing to a healthy lifestyle for individuals and societies.

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Sociology of Sport: Growth, Diversification, and Marginalization, 1981–2021

Cited by 10 publications

References 24 publications

‘Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted’: Searching for the value of metrics and altmetrics in sociology of sport journals

‘Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted’: Searching for the value of metrics and altmetrics in sociology of sport journals

‘Tiyu (体育)’ for Development and Peace? An Examination of Attitudes and Possibilities of the People’s Republic of China Regarding the Sport for Development and Peace (SDP) Movement

Reflections on Research in Kinesiology

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