ABSTRACT

Within sport management scholarship, discussions of social change are becoming increasingly prevalent yet the underlying theoretical presumptions about social change are poorly (if at all) articulated. In this paper, we examine this shortcoming and challenge scholars to critically consider their social change agenda. We draw from established theories of social change to articulate how the term has been discussed more broadly in academic literature. In particular, we distinguish between individual, organizational, and community or social level changes as well as the nature of the change in question. Second, we employed a critical interpretive synthesis to consider how social change has been addressed within sport management scholarship. In doing so, we identify both where sport management literature has aligned with the broader social change literature as well as where it has not. Finally, we offer future considerations for sport management scholars interrogating social change, that involves a critical consideration of both level and nature of change.

摘要

在体育管理学术中，关于社会变革的讨论变得越来越普遍，但关于社会变革的基本理论假设却没有得到很好的表达（如果有的话）。在本文中，我们研究了这一缺点并挑战学者批判性地考虑他们的社会变革议程。我们从既定的社会变革理论中汲取灵感，以阐明该术语如何在学术文献中得到更广泛的讨论。特别是，我们区分了个人、组织和社区或社会层面的变化以及所讨论变化的性质。其次，我们采用了批判性的解释性综合来考虑体育管理学术中如何解决社会变革。在这样做，我们确定了体育管理文献在哪些方面与更广泛的社会变革文献相一致，在哪些方面没有。最后，我们为质疑社会变革的体育管理学者提供了未来的考虑因素，其中涉及对变革水平和性质的批判性考虑。