Public policies for sport in the Baixada Fluminense
a study of social representations
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https://doi.org/10.22456/1982-8918.153506Keywords:
Public policy, Sports, Social Representations, Community ParticipationAbstract
Sport occupies a simultaneously central and ambiguous place in contemporary societies. This study starts from the hypothesis that the gap between what is planned and what is experienced in sports policies can be explained, in part, by symbolic dissonances among actors involved in their design, implementation, and appropriation. The objective is to analyze how these symbolic dissonances between conception and experience contribute to explaining the structural limits of public sport policies in peripheral contexts. Empirically, the study is based on research conducted in the Baixada Fluminense, structured into two sub-studies: the first involved 32 proponents and managers of sport policies and projects, through semi-structured interviews analyzed using content analysis and statistical lexical analysis (IRAMUTEQ); the second involved 486 beneficiaries, using free word evocation and a sociodemographic questionnaire, analyzed according to the structural approach of social representations. The results indicate that proponents employ a technical-managerial grammar, whereas beneficiaries construct meanings grounded in everyday experience, affectivity, and social relations. The study concludes that ...
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