Human Sciences, Sport Sciences, and the Need to Study People “In the Round”
- 1 August 1991
- journal article
- regular contribution
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Quest
- Vol. 43 (2) , 190-206
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00336297.1991.10484021
Abstract
The current orthodoxy regarding science within sport science is rethought so as to enable the social sciences to enter the field and allow for a debate over the nature and purpose of the sport sciences. An alternative vision of the potential of the sport sciences is proposed: A more “scientific” picture of human beings may be produced if human beings are studied “in the round,” capturing them as whole selves, not as isolated physiological or psychological units. If a multidisciplinary synthesis were adopted, the subject, via its component disciplines, would provide a model for the reintegration of disciplines in the urgent need to study people in human-development and not performance-efficiency terms.Keywords
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