ABSTRACT
Each of the major approaches mentioned, and many others, can claim to illuminate some part of the complexity that is sport, culture and society. Whatever positions or stories the student wants to tell about the changing nature of sport in different cultures or societies, they can always be more complex and always partial. Students, like researchers, carry with them domain assumptions that inform their ontological existence. It might be suggested that the student of sport, culture and society has at least three strategies. The first strategy might be to reproduce or replicate the conventional scientific enterprise laid down by certain domain assumptions or epistemological rationales. The second strategy might be to produce scientific status in one's work without necessarily replicating existing practices or studies of sport, culture and society. The process of producing social change necessitates the need for multilayered, committed perspectives that move beyond just an explanation of what is going on in sport, culture and society.
