POR QUE VOCÊ NÃO OLHA PRA MIM?: Invisibilidade social de jovens em situação de vulnerabilidade e o futebol como luta por reconhecimento

• Autor(a) principal: Seda, Daniele Mariano
• Data de Publicação: 2012
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UERJ
• Texto Completo: http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/handle/1/15313
• topic: Struggle for recognition; Social invisibility; Social Psychology; Sports Psychology; Luta por reconhecimento; Invisibilidade social; Psicologia do Esporte; Psicologia social; Futebol Aspectos sociais; Jovens Psicologia; CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::PSICOLOGIA::PSICOLOGIA SOCIAL

The present dissertation discusses about soccer as one path to social recognition by young people in situation of vulnerability, understood here by being afro-descendant, residence in slums and lack of financial resources. This vulnerability may refer to a social invisibility, which can be understood as social relations in which some persons, because they are the overwhelming majority of the time proscribed by the meaningful world of those who have the power, through indifference, and/or inhabit the social imaginary in a negative way by being stigmatized, have not recognized their abilities and potential, are ignored in some areas of social life, private from forms of social interaction. Dialectically, the heart of these relationships, this is the struggle for recognition, in this paper based on Critical Theory, especially in the writings of the theorist Axel Honneth. An individual s relationship with oneself tied to the experiences of recognition because it is only because they learn with the consent or encouragement of others referring to themselves certain characteristics. When these experiences are precarious, as in the case of social invisibility, a search takes place, a struggle for the recognition denied. Social recognition which can be obtained through soccer and its consequences, as the possibility of conspicuous consumption, of media exposure and a supposed power of social change. As a methodology to better understand these issues were analyzed social productions such as films, books, lyrics and reports, which were considered signs of a capitalist society, spectacular society and individualistic which presents itself as meritocratic, ignoring the availability of resources of the dominant culture that each person has, is positively related to personal success. And to illustrate the historical, social and cultural context, where young people in vulnerability and often socially invisibles struggle for recognition through soccer, interviews were conducted with young soccer players from the Olympic Village of Mangueira. The social rise and the identity of being a soccer player is targeted by the desire to obtain recognition of positive experiences in the three spheres of recognition and thus able to make changes in their self-relations practices: emotional dedication, being most loved by family and friends (self-confidence); the cognitive regard, become a citizen is routinely denied to them (self respect), and social esteem, by being praised for their sporting performance, having fame and visibility, and perform a social function that is admired and respected (self-esteem). In short, this research seeks to identify soccer as a tool for analysis of social dynamics and contributes by connecting the sport to the social context in favor of promoting the professionals that work with this population a much wider and critical practice, which might be able to effectively help promote social changes.