Constructing and Conducting Community Sport Ethnography: Modern Influences and Postmodern Innovations
摘要
In this chapter I outline my community sport ethnography, an immersive, longitudinal, and localized method that I used to research a youth soccer program in St. James Town. Ethnography’s rich tradition and re-emergence in the post-positivist era means diverse methodological strategies and theoretical inputs now influence its use. My constructed methodology carries forward the traditional data collection techniques from cultural anthropology and urban ethnography, modernist inputs from symbolic interactionism as well as the postmodern innovations of literary criticism. By providing a more indexical (contextual) approximation of youths’ phenomenological and affective realities, this method allowed me to more clearly understand if, how, and why sport influenced their lives.