Sociological Analysis on the Practice of Rua Volley in Cuiabá / MT

Abstract

The article deals with street volleyball in Cuiabá / MT as a sociological phenomenon. It seeks to uncover the mediating components of street volleyball, as well as to identify the interests of its practitioners in Cuiabá / MT, as well as to highlight the life histories of social agents who build a leisure path, occupying community spaces, neighborhoods and the streets of urban center of Cuiabá / MT. The research also sought to outline the profile of street volleyball practitioners, to differentiate street volleyball from volleyball court and to analyze the forms of sociability and disputes surrounding street volleyball events and games. The guiding question of the investigation was the following: What strategies outline the ways of doing "street volleyball" in Cuiabá / MT? This is a qualitative and descriptive research that used interviews as a data collection technique. The theoretical contribution used is contemporary sociology, Bourdieu's field concepts and habitus, and cultural culture and mediation in Geertz, Barbero and Lamizet. Street volleyball mediates social relations among athletes, being leisure, sport and sociability vehicle. Within the own reports we can clearly perceive the discursive differences; some more conservative or resistant, others more receptive to the unknown, to the new. But the guiding thread of all conflicts, which provoked the resigning rupture, lies in that act of publicly exposing the name of players who previously had no relevance in the court and in the street environment (street volleyball) are the kings of the street.