1st Edition
Doing Real World Research in Sports Studies
Introduction - Real Life Research: The Inside Story - Ivan Waddington and Andy Smith Chapter 1. Researching the World of Professional Football - Ivan Waddington Commentary - Sports Medicine Goes Under the Knife - Dominic Malcolm Chapter 2. Darwin’s Athletes: A Retrospective After Fifteen Years - John Hoberman Commentary - Racism, Sports Research and Political Failure - Grant Jarvie Chapter 3. Habitus as Topic and Tool: Reflections on Becoming a Prizefighter - Loïc Wacquant Commentary - ‘Three Funerals, Two Weddings, Four Births and a Baptism’: On the Importance of Embodying Sociology - Chris Shilling Chapter 4. Mischief Managed: Ticket Scalping, Research Ethics and Involved Detachment - Michael Atkinson Commentary - The Ups and Downs of Hanging Out with Ticket Scalpers: Reflections on Doing Ethnographic Research - Kath Woodward Chapter 5. Bodybuilding, Drugs and Risk: Reflections on an Ethnographic Study - Lee F. Monaghan Commentary - Raising the Bar in Bodybuilding Research: A Commentary on Bodybuilding, Drugs and Risk By Lee F. Monaghan - Martin Roderick Chapter 6. Home and Away Revisited – Warts and All - Scott Fleming Commentary - A Reflection on the Impact of Home and Away - Karl Spracklen Chapter 7. Methodological Issues in Researching Physical Activity in Later Life - Elizabeth C. J. Pike Commentary - Ageing, Embodiment and Physical Activity: Some Key Methodological Issues - Sharon Wray Chapter 8. Researching Inner-City Sport: Who Plays, And What Are The Benefits? - Ken Roberts Commentary - Roberts’ and Brodie’s Inner-City Sport: An Undiscovered Gem? - Ken Green Chapter 9. Researching Sport-for-Development: The Need for Scepticism - Fred Coalter Commentary - Sport-for-Development: The Work of Fred Coalter - Cora Burnett Chapter 10. Researching Policy Change in School Sport and Physical Education - Barrie Houlihan Commentary - Yes, Minister: Insights from Research on the Politics of Policy Change in Physical Education and School Sport - Andy Smith
Biography
Andy Smith is Professor of Sport and Physical Activity and Associate Head of the Department of Sport and Physical Activity at Edge Hill university, where he is also Director of the Social Science of Sport Research Group. He is Co-Editor of the International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics.
Ivan Waddington is a Visiting Professor at the Norwegian School of Sport Sciences, Oslo, and the University of Chester. He is a recognised expert on drug use in sport and is the author of Sport, Health and Drugs and co-author of An Introduction to Drugs in Sport (with Andy Smith).
'A fascinating read for scholars enthusiastic about social research on sport ... Within a burgeoning library of contemporary sport-related research texts, this deserves pride of place as one of the more original and compelling contributions of recent years', Alex Channon, Leisure Studies
