THE SENSES, AND THE MEANING OF THE EFFECTS OF FOREIGN BODIES IN POWER SPORTS vying HANDBALL CHAMPIONSHIP ADULT IN THE STATE FOR: IN VIEW OF APPROACH (AS) ATHLETES UNDER THE DYNAMICS OF PRACTICE AND GAMES

Abstract

This is a study of the senses, meanings and effects of power relations in the sports bodies vying for the championship handball adult in the state of Pará: An approach from the perspective of (the) athletes .. This research provides reflections of social actors assimilate the circularity of power and its mechanisms in practice this sport at the stage of training games and competitions. The objective is to understand through qualitative research - quantitative analysis methodology endorsed by the Collective Subject Discourse (CSD) of LEFEVRE (2000, p. 18), power relations between the clubs athletes competing in the sport Handball, based on the coexistence of the technical committee / technical / athletes in training and games. The sample consisted of 76 (seventy-six) athletes from a universe of 550 (five hundred fifty) registered in the Handball Federation of Pará (FHEP), 42 male, 34 female, 20% corresponding to the sum of each sex of 08 (eight) teams selected, based on the total of fifteen (15) clubs that competed in the championships in the period 2007/2010 containing the two genres. The methodology comprises the combination of qualitative and quantitative methods, and the interviews that allowed the collection of data, resulting in the construction of the DSC. The study concludes, in Foucault's perspective, that discipline can generate a functional self-sustaining power for their own devices, that the order as disciplinary punishments are presented of a mixed nature once an order is "artificial", placed explicitly by a law, program, regulations, rules, and the handball, the "disciplinary punishments" clearly happens in repressive attitudes of the technicians to their athletes.