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Record Nr.

UNINA9910781096903321

Autore

McFee Graham

Titolo

Ethics, knowledge and truth in sports research : an epistemology of sport / / Graham McFee

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2010

ISBN

1-135-27616-1

1-135-27617-X

1-282-97520-X

9786612975202

0-203-87268-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (234 p.)

Collana

Ethics and sport

Disciplina

174.9796

Soggetti

Sports - Research - Methodology

Sports - Research - Moral and ethical aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; Related papers/presentations; Part I Overview; 1 A vision of the ethics and epistemology of qualitative research into sport; Part II The nature of qualitative research; 2 Research must answer its question: Research as erotetic; 3 The issue of 'the qualitative' is not helpful; Part III The place of truth; 4 Research must aim at truth; 5 Scientism is a bad model for truth (and natural science); 6 Postmodernism and truth-denial as a kind of scientism; 7 Truth-denial is not just a style of writing; Part IV Ethics for research

8 Voluntary informed consent - not as good as gold9 Covert research into sport can be ethical; 10 The researcher is not the research subject; Part V Conclusion; 11 In summary; Appendix: Considerations of exceptionlessness in philosophy: or, everything goes with beer; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

The study of sport is characterised by its inter-disciplinarity, with researchers drawing on apparently incompatible research traditions and ethical benchmarks in the natural sciences and the social sciences, depending on their area of specialisation. In this groundbreaking study,



Graham McFee argues that sound high-level research into sport requires a sound rationale for one's methodological choices, and that such a rationale requires an understanding of the connection between the practicalities of researching sport and the philosophical assumptions which underpin them. By ex