"Os herdeiros": questões sobre o campo esportivo

Abstract

In this essay we reflect upon the area of sports and analyze reflexive possibilities around this theme in relation to the work "The Heirs" by Bourdieu and Passeron (2014). We question if, in the area of sports, one can consider the existence of "heirs", in the same logic as the "invisible inheritance" among the "heirs of the culture". By way of attendance and cultural value, we visualize in the sports area a perspective of the cultural capital element, in which, in the area of sports, the "heirs" are formed via social reproduction, under the logic of social distinction through corporeality. If to the "heirs of culture" there is a cultural capital exchange conducted almost by osmosis, to the "heirs of the sport" – those which by their physical body capital project their possibility of social ascension through the professionalization of sports – there is a restricted (and perverse) way to achieve such jobs.