The social-scientific investigation of sport requires a sound rationale for chosen methodologies and this rationale in turn suggests attention to both epistemological and ethical issues and the
connections between them. This proposition forms the core premise of this discussion of methodology in sports research by McFee (philosophy, U. of Brighton, UK), which argues for avoiding
either a scientistic approach that fails to take into account the human element and is therefore overly constraining or post-modern approaches that amount to a form of truth-denial. Following
the discussion of epistemological considerations, he addresses implications for the ethics of research. Annotation 穢2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
