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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McFee, Graham, author.

Series:

Ethics and sport.

Ethics and sport

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sports--Research--Methodology.

Sports.

Sports--Research--Moral and ethical aspects.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (234 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-135-27616-1

1-135-27617-X

1-282-97520-X

9786612975202

0-203-87268-1

OCLC:

610217601