Consumption and formation of the sport habits and leisure

Abstract

The objective of the text is to initiate an analysis of the sport habits and leisure of the population of the city of Curitiba. The data had been collected during the project “Live the Summer” of the Government of the State of the Paraná. The procedure adopted was the exploration research, with the objective to provide a general vision on the subject. The data collected by means of the exploration research constitute the first stage of a ampler inquiry. In this text we go in them to restrict to the etary of 18 the 30, that it corresponds to a moment of transistion between youth and the adult life. We analyze the following categories: etary band, familiar income, degree of schoolarity and as the individuals use its free time. We also consider the civil state, the parents, the degree of maturity of the family (if the children live together or separate of the parents) and the meaning of the sport consumptions and leisure. To guide the quarrel of habits, free time and consumption, we use the following theoretical sources: Veblen, and the concepts of conspicuous consumption, the Frankfurt’ school and the concept of cultural industry e, finally, Featherstone, that uses the concepts and the consumption. We believe that this study it will be able to bring public subsidies for teachers and managers, therefore will more make possible the deepened understanding of some forms of behavior of the citizen.