Open AccessThe Issue of Disciplinarity and Non-disciplinarity of Tourism Studies
Author(s) -
Leszek Butowski
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
téoros
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1923-2705
pISSN - 0712-8657
DOI - 10.7202/1040236ar
Subject(s) - tourism , sociology , context (archaeology) , empirical research , academic community , social science , identity (music) , order (exchange) , epistemology , political science , geography , aesthetics , economics , philosophy , archaeology , finance , law
This paper is devoted to the developments concerning theissue of disciplinarity and non-disciplinarity of tourism studies. The topic is embeddedin a wider context of the academic identity of the community of tourism researchers. Asthe theoretical foundations for the discussion some concepts of non-classical sociology ofscience (rooted in Thomas Kuhn’s theory of development of science and ideas of the “StrongProgramme”) were used. In order to analyze the problem theoretically and empirically, athree-stage research framework was adopted, commencing with a directed review ofAnglo-American and Francophone literature, followed by a survey of a purposeful sample oftourism academics and concluding with a further analysis of the literature, this timeconfronting empirical findings with the identified scholars’ stances. The empiricalresearch included a survey carried out among approximately 270 scholars of tourism fromalmost 50 countries from all the continents