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)

Downloads

Published

2014-01-30

Issue

Vol. 36 No. 2 (2014)

Section

Artigos Originais