A Meditation in Which Consideration Is Given to the Past and Future Engagement of Social Science Generally and Critical Physical Education and Sports Scholarship in Particular with Various Scientific Debates, Including the So-Called "Obesity Epidemic" and Contemporary Manifestations of Biological Determinism

Autor/in	Gard, Michael
Titel	A Meditation in Which Consideration Is Given to the Past and Future Engagement of Social Science Generally and Critical Physical Education and Sports Scholarship in Particular with Various Scientific Debates, Including the So-Called "Obesity Epidemic" and Contemporary Manifestations of Biological Determinism
Quelle	In: Sport, Education and Society, 16 (2011) 3, S.399-412 (14 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1357-3322
Schlagwörter	Physical Education; Obesity; Social Sciences; Biological Sciences; Social Scientists; Athletics; Genetics; Epidemiology; Public Health; Physical Activities; Intervention; Social Justice + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Körpererziehung; Sportunterricht; Adipositas; Social science; Sozialwissenschaften; Gesellschaftswissenschaften; Abwasserbiologie; Social scientist; Sozialwissenschaftler; Leichtathletik; Humangenetik; Epidemiologie; Gesundheitswesen; Soziale Gerechtigkeit
Abstract	My purpose in this paper is to consider the relationship between, on the one hand, critical social science and, on the other hand, existing and emerging sciences of the body. Taking my lead from the sociologist, Steve Fuller, I discuss the ways in which some social scientists, both within and outside physical education and sport, have engaged with the idea of an "obesity epidemic", generally falling between the distant poles of naive acceptance and ideological rejection. Using new and emerging forms of biological determinism as a second example, I describe the colonising tendencies of particular medical and biological sciences, such that robustly social understandings of the body and less instrumental approaches to physical education are, in some senses, at risk. A future social science of the body needs to be more scientifically literate in order for the excesses of science to be managed or tamed. In other words, the job of the social scientist is to be able to speak more than one language. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10