Culture and sports: the possible dialogue

Abstract

This article proposes an examination of the dialogue between sport and culture, social phenomena, universals and complexes. According to Bauman’s (2012) studies, to understand culture, it is indispensable the analysis of coexistence of three ambivalent concepts: hierarchic culture highlights the opposition between ‘refined’ and ‘coarse’ culture, taking education as a way between them. Culture’s differential, which is the producer and the product of endless oppositions between life’s ways; Culture’s generic, structured by the dichotomy of world-human and natural-world at the same that time it congregates and distinguishes human’s race from the others. Reflect about sports under   Bauman’s (2012) concepts such as ‘good intention’ of dialogue between cultures, explored by Jullien (2003), pointing out that the attempts to dialogue seem universalism manifestations and are far from happening and discussing the categories of universal culture, uniform and common, enabling critical analysis and a less puerile understanding of the sport. Thus, infers on culture and sports: 1) Culture standardization way as a factor of universalisation, improving health and education; 2) Media product such as globalised culture, uniform practices, which encourage commercialization; 3) Body language that benefits the common dialogue trough cultures, bringing men into coexistence.