Éléments pour la construction d'une métasociologie du sport

Abstract

The objective of this article is to question the conditions of research possibilities in the field of sport sociology. Its epistemologic aim is to solve in a reflexive way the social construction of sports sociologies. Differents topics are suggested in order to define the object of research, the thematic field, the theoritical corpus and methodologic research: the question of the subjects divisions and the spe- cialised knowledges; the role of the objectives determinations in the constitution of a knowledge; the inner complexity of corporal reality of the body and its dimension as a total social fact; research types in sports sociology and their specific intentions; the knowledge and the major epistemological stakes; the relation between the searcher and the object of his research and the intersubjective problematics. These levels of intelligibility show the necessities of all available explanations, of the multireferentia- lity and the epistemological complementarism in the sociologics of sports research. Otherwise, it would lower its heuristic capacity and relativitise its cognitive inputs.