A Sociology of Sport and its development in Brazil: trends and absences.
Sociology of Sport; Sport; Physical Education; Sociology.
The present study seeks to answer the following question: How was the development of the Sociology of Sport in Brazil, seeking to grasp its outline, its genesis and development. To do so, at first proposes to establish an analysis of how the Sociology of Sport is, or the development of criticism of sport, having as point of inflection the project of "intention of rupture" in the 1980s by the nascent Progressive Renewal Movement of physical education in Brazil. It was necessary to situate the onto-historical genesis and the development of Sociology; to point out the emergence and institutionalization of Sociology of Sport, apprehending its historical movement; In a second moment, from the Directory of Research Groups in Brazil (DGP)We undertake a mapping of academic production (from doctoral theses), regarding criticism of sport in Brazil, identification and categorization of the main theoretical matrices that underlie these criticisms. Finally, in a last movement, we seek to point out, what are the trends present contemporaneously in the studies on sport in Brazil, as well as, the identification of the absence in the debate, of certain theoretical authors that represent it.