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Juegos, deporte informal, cultura social y democracia
Quiroga, Sergio Ricardo.
Revista Ciencia, Deporte y Cultura Física, vol. 1, núm. 1, 2005, pp. 69-82.
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Resumen
Sports are very important for health, but are more
important for the communities´ social culture. In informal sports -
sports not organized with rigid rules - groups are integrated by people of
different ages and professions, who don't participated in any traditional
sports organization and who celebrate different sports practices in free
places. The concept of "free-place" is relevant to understand this work.
Recently, this citizen phenomenon shows people playing and practicing
sports without sports organizations. This situation hasn't deserved
sport researchers´ consideration and in this case we examine it from an
anthropological point of view to understand culture in a greater
sense.The questions that guided our way were: What do we know
about these sports groups? How do they play sports? How do people
gather to practice sports? We worked with ethnographic research
techniques during the years 2001 and 2002. The research group
investigated three informal sports groups in Villa Mercedes City, San
Luis province, Argentina. The groups were made up of young males of
14 to 26 years old. These groups revived the meaning of a new
dimension of sports as an instance of pleasure. The popular sports
manifestations show five levels or categories of a particular use of
sports: 1) free sports practice 2) sports places 3) alternative sports
styles 4) sports elements and sports clothing 5) common identities and
positive feelings.Popular sports are very different to traditional
practices of sports where the coordination and organization of sports
have become high level. In these particular practices of sports, the
groups choose their own form of connecting with the "sport" and with
the other people in a true democratic sense. The persons playing sports
and these practices and experiences, are highly
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