Social project athlete sport club: a research on social sports projects associated with athletes and former athletes

• Grant number: 21/10553-3
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Post-Doctoral
• Start date: June 01, 2022
• End date: February 28, 2023
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Sociology
• Principal Investigator: Renato Francisco Rodrigues Marques
• Grantee: Billy Graeff Bastos
• Host Institution: Escola de Educação Física e Esporte de Ribeirão Preto (EEFERP). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Ribeirão Preto , SP, Brazil

Abstract

What has come to be called "sport social projects" in Brazil has been increasingly present in different realities and, in this context, in turn, athletes and former athletes have been gradually shown more interested in such projects. This postdoctoral project has as a theme sporting social projects associated with athletes and former athletes. To problematize such theme, we make use of theoretical accumulations around sporting social projects, a subject thatappears in international literature as Sport for Development and Peace (SDP). The guiding question of this research is: why and how athletes and former athletes invest time, material and symbolic resources in sport social projects? Likewise, the objective of the research is to know the dispositions of athletes and ex-athletesfor them to invest time, material and symbolic resources in sport social projects. In theoretical terms, we draw on prosopography, Pierre Bourdieu's reflexive sociology and the concepts of lifestyle, habitus, taste and illusion to seek to understand the context and engagement of athletes and former athletes with sports social projects. In the methodological aspect, we invest in document collection and analysis, interviews and focus groups and thematic analysis of qualitative data. (AU)