THE THREE POINTS OF ENTRY OF POLITICAL ECONOMY IN SOCCER

Authors

  • Anderson David Gomes dos Santos Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos

Keywords:

Political Economy, Vincent Mosco, Cultural Industry, Soccer.

Abstract

purpose of this paper is to analyze soccer based on the three entry points established by Mosco (2009) as constituent parts of a theoretical-methodological frameworkfor studies on the global political economy: commodification, spatialization and structuration. From these inputs, which allow a recognition of dependence on particular factors of space-time and historical and situational functioning in social reality and, consequently, in the concrete social formations, aims at analyzing the development of soccer as a sport with great reception world, with due regard to the Cultural Industry as one of the major contributors in this process.

Author Biography

  • Anderson David Gomes dos Santos, Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos
    Mestrando no Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciências da Comunicação da Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos (UNISINOS), onde é bolsista da Coodenação de Apoio ao Pessal de Nível Superior (CAPES), no âmbito do Projeto RH-TVD, e membro do Grupo de Pesquisa Comunicação, Economia Política e Sociedade - CEPOS (apoiado pela Ford Foundation)

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Published

2014-01-30

Issue

Vol. 36 No. 2 (2014)

Section

Artigos Originais