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Introduction: Making the Case for the Social Sciences of Sport, Exercise, and Health ; The Sport Ethic and the Natural Sciences ; Proposing a Human Development Model -- Part I. Identity: Definitions, Development, and the Individual -- Chapter 1. History of Sport / Wray Vamplew, PhD ; Relationships With Other Disciplines ; Core Concepts ; Main Theoretical Perspectives ; Critical Findings ; Key Debates ; Summary -- Chapter 2. Philosophy of Sport / Sigmund Loland, PhD, and Michael McNamee, PhD ; Historical Overview of the Discipline ; Main Theoretical Perspectives ; Key Debates ; Future Directions ; Summary -- Chapter 3. Psychology of Sport / David Lavallee, PhD, John Kremer, PhD, and Aidan Moran, PhD ; Core Concepts ; Main Theoretical Perspectives ; Critical Findings ; Key Debates ; Summary -- Part II. Community: Place, Space, Image, and the Social -- Chapter 4. Anthropology of Sport / Alan Klein, PhD ; Foundations in Sociocultural Anthropology ; Post-1970: The Athletic El Dorado and the Anthropologists Who Seek Him ; Looking Outward ; Summary -- Chapter 5. Sociology of Sport / Joseph Maguire, PhD ; Historical Development and Core Concepts ; Main Theoretical Perspectives ; A Sociological Account of Sport: Critical Findings ; Future Directions and Key Debates ; Summary -- Chapter 6. Geography of Sport / Christopher Gaffney, PhD ; Historical Trajectory of the Geography of Sport ; Core Concepts ; Main Theoretical Perspectives ; Key Debates and Critical Findings ; Future Directions ; Summary -- Chapter 7. Media Studies and Sport / David Rowe, PhD ; Historical Connections and Questions in Media Studies ; Understanding Media: Core Concepts ; Media Powers and Routines: Main Theoretical Perspectives ; Critical Findings and Key Debates in Sport and Media ; Conclusion: Sport and Media Studies in Transition -- Part III. Capital: Wealth, Power, and Resources -- Chapter 8. Economics and Sport / Stefan Szymanski, PhD ; Professional League Model: Theory and Policy ; Productivity Studies ; Economic Impact: Measurement, Theory, and Policy ; Sport, Physical Activity, and Well-Being ; Illustrations of Economic Issues ; Conclusions -- Chapter 9. Political Science and Sport / Jonathan Grix, PhD ; Core Concepts in Political Science ; Study of Sport and Politics ; Research Paradigms and Theoretical Perspectives in Political Science ; Applying Political Science and Sport: The Governance of Sport and the Politics of Mega-Events ; Summary -- Chapter 10. International Relations and Sport / Roger Levermore, PhD, and Aaron Beacom, PhD ; Core Concepts and Main Theoretical Perspectives ; Critical Findings and Key Debates ; Summary -- Part IV. Governance: Regulation, Organization, and Implementation -- Chapter 11. Sport and the Law / Deborah Healey, LLB, LLM (Hons) ; The Global Organization and Regulation of Sport ; Overview: The Place of Law in Sport ; Are the Courts Always Interested in Sport? ; Governance ; Aspects of Industry Self-Regulation in Sport ; Summary -- Chapter 12. Sport and Social Policy / Ramoń Spaaij, PhD ; Discipline of Social Policy: A Historical Overview ; Main Theoretical Perspectives ; Key Concepts ; Key Debates ; Summary -- Chapter 13. Sport and Management Studies / Lucie Thibault, PhD ; Sport as a Unique Industry ; Historical Overview ; Core Concepts ; Main Theoretical Perspectives ; Critical Findings ; Key Debates ; Summary -- Chapter 14. Sport and Education / Dawn Penney, PhD ; Core Concepts ; Theoretical Perspectives ; Critical Findings ; Key Debates ; Summary.

Across the medical and social sciences, new discussions about replication have led to transformations in research practice. Sociologists, however, have been largely absent from these discussions. The goals of this review are to introduce sociologists to these developments, synthesize insights from science studies about replication in general, and detail the specific issues regarding replication that occur in sociology. The first half of the article argues that a sociologically sophisticated understanding of replication must address both the ways that replication rules and conventions evolved within an epistemic culture and how those cultures are shaped by specific research challenges. The second half outlines the four main dimensions of replicability in quantitative sociology—verifiability, robustness, repeatability, and generalizability—and discusses the specific ambiguities of interpretation that can arise in each. We conclude by advocating some commonsense changes to promote replication while acknowledging the epistemic diversity of our field.

Through detailed case studies, the contributors look at conflicts in social science arguing that they must be resolved at the level of the individual discipline rather than at the level of philosopy. They explore different ways in which social scientists deal with the tension of being simultaneously party to a conflict and a contributor its settlement