Study of the guidance for the development of sport social science in China - a statistical analysis of the 1999-2009 guides for National Social Science Fund Awarded Topics in Sports Science.
In order to probe into the role of national social science funds in guiding the development of sport social science in China,based on the data in the Social Science Fund Application Guides(for Sports Science) issued by the website of Nationwide Philosophy and Social Science Planning Office in previous years,the author performed a statistical analysis on keywords used in the 1999-2009 Guides for National Social Science Fund Application,projects established,and theses published on CSSCI journals by using keyword frequency and degree of similarity statistical methods,and revealed the following findings: with respect to the National Social Science Fund Application Guides,the rate of project establishment was 90.0%,the rate of guidance was 80.0%,the degree of similarity between the topic guides and project establishment was 77.1%;the broken line chart of keywords used in the topic guides was extremely similar to the broken line chart of keywords used in projects established and the broken line chart of keywords used in CSSCI journals.The said findings indicated that the establishment of projects awarded with national social science funds(for sport science) and the degree of concern of the academic community about sport social science related issues are basically consistent with the state’s ideology for the development of sport social science,and that the Guides for National Social Science Fund Awarded Topics play an important role in guiding the development of sport social science in China.