AS ACADEMIAS DE FITNESS COMO LOCUS DA EDUCAÇÃO DO CORPO

Abstract

This study proposes to reflect in times of esthetics, one of its cultural and social opportunities of education of the body as the locus called Gym. This revelation and contemporary setting body, has attracted attention and reflection the most diverse areas of knowledge, especially for the present study, the accumulated knowledge coming from the health sciences in which physical education is included as well as the social sciences. Focused on the study of seizures in search of different understandings of body, health and aesthetic patrons and teachers build fitness gyms in that area of education of the body. These spaces have expanded considerably in recent decades, ensuring the access of different social classes that typify and organize themselves according to their socio economic cultural as they are recognized as a possible strategy of building the Body legitimate subject to aesthetic standards, the sometimes gives way to the emergence of the discourse of healthy life. In defining the theoretical and methodological choices possible given the existence of many scholars chose to rely on social science and physical education: Pierre Bourdieu, Anthony Giddens, Marcel Mauss, David Le Breton, Ana Lúcia de Castro, Mirian Goldenberg, John Paul Subira Medina, Cristina Darido Suraya. Research was outlined as being qualitative, using three methods: documentary analysis, non-participant observation and two semi-structured questionnaires addressed to teachers and patrons. Selected two fitness gyms, known as (A) and (B) located in the city of Anapolis, Goiás. The considerations of both the patrons and teachers define it, in principle, the coexistence of two apparently different discourses and relatively autonomous: the frequency of fitness gyms to be moved by the ideal of cultivating a healthy life, and yet another that with many reservations, the search of esthetics. Looks daffodils printed on the mirrors, mostly by women in academia (A) frequented by fractions of local elites and men of the people (B) constitute an undeniable proof of the contradictory discourse of the body that education has been shown in contemporary society: the cultural standard of physical type "perfect" - the consecration of the Body legitimate.