Delicadeza e espírito de grupo: o basquetebol como invenção cultural

Abstract

The main purpose of this research focuses the sociability in the universe of basketball players. It emphatizes the construction of the team sense, especialy between its young players. The theoretical perspective is based on the social historic and antropological investigation. The description of the basketball game dynamics shows the production of the sociability processes. It emphatizes the creation of the team sense. According to Simmel conception of sociability, the investigation analysed the two groups: the school group of a private social recreative BNB Club and the public and federal school CEFET. Both these educational organizations realize a joint work with young people in Fortaleza. The The research methodology includes: the direct observations, interviews, field diary, photographies and documents research, magazine, newspapers, studies found in the virtual lybraries and so on. The scientific analysis considered the reality such as the trainings and official competitions as the CEFET Cup in Fortaleza, in 2006 and the annual regional meeting of CEFETs named EDCENNE, in the years 2005 and 2006. These events have been realized since year 2000 up to now. The analysis includes events based on the Hobsbawn perspective which calls attention to the importance of the ritual in order to construct the cultural identity and to mantain symbols and traditions observed in the behavior of the groups in the Games context. The basketball game is apropriated in different social contexts as schools, recreative clubs and entertainment segments or enterprise ones. Some social organizations apropriated this game to divulgate their image of the social responsability and they also defend their trade strategics too. Some basketball players have called it the polite game due to its purposes that stimulate the team sense and the production of its specific discipline.