ABSTRACT
This chapter aims to promote scholarship that works at the intersection between the psychology and sociology of sport. It outlines some of the boundaries that exist between sport sociology and psychology and offers some reasons for why this might be the case. The chapter highlights some benefits of why researchers within both disciplines might engage in working across the psychology-sociology hyphen. To begin to realize some of these benefits, it outlines several possibilities for how researchers might work at the intersection of sport psychology and sport sociology. Psychologists of sport generally believe that there is an objective reality – an external referent – that can be discovered independent from their knowledge of it through the use of appropriate methods. The notion of a subject position suggests the potential for human agency, resistance, and change, something that both sport psychology and sport sociology are interested in impacting.
