Football supporter : adhesion, alienation and violence / Torcida de futebol : adesão, alienação e violência

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2008

RESUMO

The object of this research is the regular football supporter, analyzing what drives a person to cheer and what in this practice can lead to alienation and violence. Our main theory references are the Frankfurt School and the Freudian theory. We have studied the football in its appropriation by the cultural industry and the supporter as part of the masses studied by Freud (1921/1974a) in Group psychology and analysis of the ego and subsequently by the frankfurtians. Sixteen supporters of different Brazilian teams were interviewed. They were divided in two groups of eight subjects according to their education level: one group of supporters with low education level and another group with middle education level. The results have shown a certain devotion to the team in both groups as well as alienation and a tendency to barbarity and prejudice. This was more visible on the group with higher education level, what means that nowadays education can promote this kind of attitude.

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cultural industry industria cultural violence freud sigmund 1856-1939 escola de frankfurt frankfurt school of sociology freud sigmund 1856-1939 futebol violência soccer

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