APA 2302 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Fernand Braudel, France, Longitudinal Study

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Human Kinetics
• Course: APA 2302
• Professor: N/ A

Document Summary

How history allows us to better understand the current sport contest. Understand the social structures, values, and social relations in place at the time of sport policy development. Understand how to chart sport changes in context of social life changes, power shift in society. Monitor changes in the organization and meanings of games to different groups of people. Gain perspective on current problems and where future difficulties may arise in context of changing society, social relations values. How to conduct primary research in sports history. Primary: gathering fresh data (ex. archives, interviews) Secondary: the use of data already collected. The difference lies in data collection sources. Quantitative: numerical data, statistics, formulates facts, surveys, interviews, longitudinal studies, measuring. Qualitative: opinions, develops ideas for quantitative, language focus groups, interviews, observations. Advantage: early stages when researcher is not sure what to focus on so study unfolds naturally, more detailed/rich data in form of written and visual evidence.