Teoria Crítica do Esporte

origens, polêmicas, atualidade

Abstract

In the decade of 1960 emerges in Social Sciences the Critical Theory of Sport. It has been very critic on sport because of its structure affinities with work, its reification processes and its position in the schemas of mass culture. The critics on this theory point extremisms, little empirical material, the ideology force and a gap in considering the speeches and representations of sport’s protagonists. The aim of this paper is to analyze these processes. In this sense, it reviews the origins and main thesis of that theoretical movement, the critics on it and its possibly actuality. The critics are partly right when they observe some rigid thinking in Critical Theory of Sport, but many of that don’t take in grant the its advances on comprehension of sport spectacle. The actuality of the theory can be found in new methodological approaches and themes, in opening of dialogue with other perspectives and in links between critic reflections an empirical