Banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO: LARYSSA RANGEL GUERRA

The social representations of university students about women practitioners of fights

women in struggles; social representations; sport

The sports phenomenon is a prosperous field, whether in the sphere of high performance, school or leisure for studies involving women and their corporeality. Women have occupied more spaces and gained more rights over the years. In the field of sports, in more remote times, the belief was widespread and naturalized that women would not fit body practices that could corrupt their grace and femininity. Being the same banned from various sports competitions and prohibited from practicing certain modalities on a daily basis because they are considered unfit to do so. Contemporaneity has become the stage for subjects that were previously veiled or that simply did not get as much attention, as is the case of women in sports, more specifically those who practice some modality within fights. The theory of Social Representations (SR) presents itself as a field of knowledge in order to establish an understanding of socially shared practices and thoughts. We produce social representations to transform unfamiliar social content into something known and agreed upon. The woman in the environment of the struggle produces, even today, foci of prejudice or estrangement. The notion that the university is a space for the construction of knowledge is commonly shared and it is from this perspective that this study was developed. The objective will be to identify the Social Representations of women practitioners of fights generated by students of the Physical Education course at the Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro. For the development of such a study, the structural approach of Social Representations will be used, which establishes that there is a central nucleus and a peripheral system when hierarchically organizing such generated/represented elements. With this, we will use a sociodemographic and free evocation questionnaire with the inducing term "women who practice fighting" and a posteriori the data obtained will be analyzed using the Iramuteq software.