Digging the dirt and staying clean: Retrieving the investigative tradition for a critical sociology of sport

International Review for the Sociology of Sport

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 385-397

  Sugden, John ^a   Tomlinson, Alan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRIGHTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

epistemology; FIFA; investigative research; new journalism

Indexed keywords

EID: 34247291457     PISSN: 10126902     EISSN: 14617218     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/101269099034004006     Document Type: Article

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