Resumen de Sociopolitical appropriation of the human body in Physical Education and Sport: from A to Q

Marcelo Olivera Cavalli, Adriana Schüler Cavalli

• The objective of this critical paper is to debate on ways and methods the body is perceived, conceived and appropriated within various social spheres. The guidelines for the analysis observe, more specifically, the procedures within two areas of knowledge directly concerned to the body. The way the body is approached and used has strict implications on the way society establishes itself. An ecological relationship is institutionalized between society and the political appropriation of the body: society influences the body as well as the body influences society. Social function and social formation of both structures should be scrutinized. Physical education and sport should be responsible for conducting a critical approach to their own manipulation and to that performed on the body.