A herança na trajetória esportiva de grandes mestres brasileiros: processos educacionais e esportivos de formação de uma elite cultural

Grandmasters, distinct elite: Taste submitted to discussion from the social conditioning factors of the predilection for chess

“…GM 4 was the only example, having influence from school and city but, even so, from family arrangements that stimulated him to engage in strategy games. For more details on the differences related to the mode and environment of contact with culture, see Januário (2017).…”

“…The origin of the dispositions related to the practice of chess has been shown, according to some studies, to be strongly related to the influence of cultural heritage when considering the trajectories of Brazilian GMs (Januário, 2014(Januário, , 2017Januário and Marques, 2018). The ways in which the cultural practice of chess was transmitted to them had features such as a family genealogy composed of an extensive and distant structure of members with previous contact with the practice, an initiation carried out at an early age considering the first contacts with chess and in a very subtle and concealed way in their daily lives.…”

“…Music is not the records and the record player, thanks to which we discover Bach and Vivaldi, but the family piano, heard since childhood and vaguely practiced until adolescence; painting is not the museums, suddenly discovered in the extension of a school education, but the scenario of the family universe. (Bourdieu, 1983a: 88) The element of competition, proper of a cultural practice that is also sportive (Januário, 2014(Januário, , 2017Souza et al, 2011), had been mentioned among the tastes listed by the agents. Rather than any dispute, the mention of success and constant victories accumulated through the insignia of trophies and medals, from the initiation phase to the elite level of chess, is relevant evidence in their statements.…”

“…Within the social space shared by cultural practices considered as distinct, as a way of approaching the problematic of interest of this article, there is chess. Among the symbolic disputes in which this subspace is engaged, in turn, is the one related to the acquisition and manifestation of taste by the elite of this activity that, on the national scene, can be understood as the Brazilian grandmasters (GMs) (Januário, 2014(Januário, , 2017.…”

Para uma teoria do capital esportivo: conversações com Bourdieu e Lahire

“…Sua ocorrência acontece, de modo mais claro, em (ex)atletas profissionais e de alto rendimento, porém, também se apresenta nos indivíduos que, ao longo de suas vidas, se apropriaram como praticantes de algum tipo de esporte. Por exemplo, Januário (2017), ao investigar a presença da herança familiar na trajetória esportiva de doze jogadores de alto rendimento de xadrez, demonstrou que a família esteve presente no início dos processos de socialização desses jogadores. Assim, o xadrez se apresentou como uma modalidade esportiva presente na transmissão familiar por meio da vivência com a prática enxadrística desde a infância, oferecida por familiares que já tinham realizado contato prévio com esta modalidade.…”