'Radical' social theory of sport: a critique and a conceptual emendation
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ABSTRACT:
The social theory of sport literature has taken a new and welcome critical turn in the last few years. That turn is revealed in the emergence of a Marxist-base corpus of literature which challenges headlong the fundamental tenets of mainstream (functionalist) sport sociology. The purpose of the present paper is to critically respond to this new theory of sport; in particular to its two major versions - what the author calls respectively, vulgar Marxist, and hegemonic sport theory. Evaluates two major versions of the new critical theory of sport, the Marxist and the hegemonic sport theory. Argues that both versions are conceptually flawed, and that these conceptual flaws are themselves ideologically grounded. Suggests that radical theory's conceptions of sport as social practice is in error, and that this error receives its impetus and plausibility from the social circumstances that presently prevail in capitalist society. Concludes that radical theory of sport is not a radical but a reactionary theory and that a genuine critical theory must be based on its formal autonomy.
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