Sport and the global society: the subjectivities in the contemporaneity

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to discuss the interface: identity, sport, globalization (based on both the technological development and tradition), and the contradiction between the identity affirmation and the technological increment in the advance of the globalization concerning the sportive context. Considering the character conferred to sport with time, it is seen as having an articulating role of subjectivities in the human being’s life. The sport, as a human activity, modifies not only the world, but also the subject who performs it, immersed in a society that, from the theoretical exaltation of the sport category, is effectively changed as a whole: now seen as a society of sportsmen. With the advent of singular forms of sport organization, men saw themselves not basing their life in necessities of belonging to the family, the communities, the social organizations, but constrained to believe in possibilities of their own development as autonomous and free subjects.