Abstract
New narrative discourse patterns from Finland and Denmark raise epistemological questions about what the sociology of sport is able or unable to say. They leave the field of positivist "it"-language (about the object) and often turn towards experience and memory in "1" language (about and from out the subject). This is continuing some earlier approaches from psychological introspection, psycho-analysis and phenomenology, but the established dualism of subjectivism versus objectivism is not sufficient to describe the innovative process. Is there a third way or could there be third ways - social biographical, autobiographical, situational, scenical, social ecological... - to express the dialogical dimension of human existence, the "thou"? This epistemological self-questioning is of special importance for social studies of sport and movement culture treating the bodily dialogue between social beings.
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