Qualitative Research on Sport and Physical Culture (Research in the Sociology of Sport)

This volume takes a fresh approach to qualitative research on sport and physical culture by presenting 'student friendly' engaging chapters that clearly articulate the significance and practice of qualitative and/or critical methods in plain and convincing language. It outlines contemporary, cutting-edge approaches in qualitative research methods that students in undergraduate programs in sociology and sociology of sport, as well as, for instance, sport, exercise, kinesiology, or health, can understand clearly. Chapters revolve around one principal method in qualitative methodology, and look at why certain methodological choices were made, what problems were faced, and how these were overcome. Classic issues in methodology, contemporary issues in research methods and innovative trends in qualitative research are addressed through case study examples from emerging and exciting areas of research in sport studies. Topics covered include: historical methods; ethnography; auto-ethnography; embodied methods; interviewing; narratives; participatory action methods; interpretative phenomenological analysis; media analysis; and visual methods. FRONT COVER QUALITATIVE RESEARCH ON SPORT AND PHYSICAL CULTURE FRONT COVER CONTENTS LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS INTRODUCTION: THE PRACTICE OF QUALITATIVE RESEARCH AND THINKING QUALITATIVELY BRIDGING THREE ’OLOGIES’ THINKING UNQUANTITATIVELY USING INTERPRETIVE TRADITIONS USING QUALITATIVE RESEARCH TO STUDY SPORT AND PHYSICAL CULTURE: A MEASURE OF FIT ABOUT THIS VOLUME REFERENCES CHAPTER 1 HISTORICAL METHODS AND TRACES OF THE PAST: EMBRACING THE COMPLEXITIES AND ENGAGING IN REFLEXIVITY INTRODUCTION PARADIGMATIC APPROACHES TRACES OF THE PAST EXPLORING THE ARCHIVES: (UN)OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS NEWSPAPERS PHOTOGRAPHS ORAL HISTORIES DESIGNING A PROJECT FROM DATA TO ANALYSIS CONCLUSION FIVE KEY READINGS NOTES REFERENCES CHAPTER 2 THE EMPIRICAL STRIKES BACK: DOING REALIST ETHNOGRAPHY INTRODUCTION REALIST ETHNOGRAPHIC ENCOUNTERS (ALTERNATIVE) MODELS AND STRATEGIES FOR DEVELOPING ETHNOGRAPHIC RESEARCH PROJECTS ’OM BOY’: A REALIST ETHNOGRAPHY OF ASHTANGA REALIST CONTROVERSIES FIVE KEY READINGS REFERENCES CHAPTER 3 THE ETHNOGRAPHIC (I)NTERVIEW IN THE SPORTS FIELD: TOWARDS A POSTMODERN SENSIBILITY INTRODUCTION THE QUALITATIVE INTERVIEW: A BRIEF HISTORY INTERVIEWING IN THE SPORTS FIELD: AN ETHNOGRAPHIC STUDY OF SNOWBOARDING CULTURE THE ETHNOGRAPHIC (I)NTERVIEW: SOME REFLECTIONS FROM THE FIELD FINAL THOUGHTS: INTERVIEWING BODIES IN PHYSICAL CULTURAL FIELDS FIVE KEY READINGS REFERENCES CHAPTER 4 NARRATIVE ANALYSIS IN SPORT AND PHYSICAL CULTURE WHAT IS NARRATIVE ANALYSIS AND WHY IS IT RELEVANT FOR SPC? DOING NARRATIVE ANALYSIS NARRATIVE ANALYSES CONCLUSION FIVE KEY READINGS REFERENCES CHAPTER 5 VISUAL METHODS IN PHYSICAL CULTURE: BODY CULTURE EXHIBITION INTRODUCTION A BACKGROUND TO VISUAL METHODS WHEN ARE VISUAL METHODS USED IN PHYSICAL CULTURAL STUDIES RESEARCH? TRANSLATING AND REPRESENTING RESEARCH THROUGH ARTS-BASED APPROACHES BODY CULTURE THE POWER OF VISUAL REPRESENTATIONS OF RESEARCH: AFFECTIVE RESPONSES TO IMAGES CONCLUSION FIVE KEY READINGS NOTE REFERENCES CHAPTER 6 MEDIA ANALYSIS IN PHYSICAL CULTURAL STUDIES: FROM PRODUCTION TO RECEPTION INTRODUCTION DESIGN FINDINGS AND REFLECTIONS CONCLUSION FIVE KEY READINGS REFERENCES CHAPTER 7 CRITICAL FEMINIST/QUEER METHODOLOGIES: DECONSTRUCTING (HETERO)NORMATIVE INSCRIPTIONS INTRODUCTION: THE EMERGENCE OF QUEER FEMINIST CULTURAL METHODOLOGIES DESIGNING A METHODOLOGY TO EXPLORE (HETERO)NORMATIVE INSCRIPTION/S IN SPACE DOING A QUEER FEMINIST CULTURAL STUDY OF LOCKER ROOMS TOWARDS A (COMPLICIT) LEAKY METHODOLOGY FIVE KEY READINGS NOTES REFERENCES CHAPTER 8 EMBODIED RESEARCH METHODOLOGIES AND SEEKING THE SENSES IN SPORT AND PHYSICAL CULTURE: A FLESHING OUT OF PROBLEMS AND POSSIBILITIES INTRODUCTION SEEKING THE SENSES IN SPORT AND PHYSICAL CULTURE: SOME BEGINNINGS SEEKING THE SENSES REFLECTIONS FIVE KEY READINGS REFERENCES CHAPTER 9 AUTOETHNOGRAPHY: SITUATING PERSONAL SPORTING NARRATIVES IN SOCIO-CULTURAL CONTEXTS INTRODUCTION WHAT IS AUTOETHNOGRAPHY? DOING AUTOETHNOGRAPHY: RESEARCH DESIGN AND PRACTICE KEY FINDINGS OF THE STUDIES CONCLUSION FIVE KEY READINGS NOTE REFERENCES CHAPTER 10 TWO (OR MORE) FEET ARE BETTER THAN ONE: MIXED METHODS RESEARCH IN SPORT AND PHYSICAL CULTURE INTRODUCTION: FIRST STEPS AND MIXED METHODOLOGICAL BEGINNINGS WALKING THE LINE: BALANCING METHODOLOGICAL CONTRADICTIONS RUNNING BEFORE I COULD WALK: SETTING UP THE STUDY UP AND RUNNING: GETTING, AND DEALING WITH, DATA FINAL STEPS: PROMISES, PITFALLS AND FUTURE DIRECTIONS IN MIXED METHODS FIVE KEY READINGS REFERENCES CHAPTER 11 TRUTH OR DARE: EXAMINING THE PERILS, PAINS AND PITFALLS OF INVESTIGATIVE METHODOLOGIES IN THE SOCIOLOGY OF SPORT INTRODUCTION SEARCHING FOR THE TRUTH SOCIOLOGICAL IMPRESSIONISM THE FOURTH ESTATE AND THE INVESTIGATIVE IMPERATIVE IN SOCIOLOGICAL RESEARCH PROSE NOT POSE ETHNOGRAPHY AND ETHICS FLATTERY AND BETRAYAL THE PUBLIC INTEREST RISK ASSESSMENT CONCLUSIONS FIVE KEY READINGS NOTES REFERENCES