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Kinesiology's "Inconvenient Truth" and the Physical Cultural Studies Imperative
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Andrews, David L. – Quest, 2008
This article explicates the "inconvenient truth" that is at the core of the crisis currently facing the field of kinesiology. Namely, the instantiation of an epistemological hierarchy that privileges positivist over postpositivist, quantitative over qualitative, and predictive over interpretive ways of knowing. The discussion outlines…
Descriptors: Physical Activities, Human Body, Sociology, Exercise Physiology