ABSTRACT
‘Sport sociology’ implies a different form, content, and perceptual tack on the nature of academic research. Projects embedded in a sport sociology framework are generally flavoured with keen sociological insight and argument, but thematic emphasis in them may lean more heavily toward substantive articulations of sport’s cultural significance in society rather than as theoretical/conceptual excursions into sport. Research in the sociology of sport that involves human subjects or participants raises unique and complex ethical, legal, social, and political issues. The most important issue arising in the ethical review of scientific research involving human participants is risk of harm. Interviewing is a research technique with many faces and varieties, including life history interviewing, phenomenological interviewing, focus group interviewing, structured and unstructured interviewing, peer interviewing, active interviewing, and others. The increasing prominence of the sport for development and peace research in the sub-discipline has rekindled an interest in evaluation methods amongst researchers.
