Network design of a social sports project: actors, representations and meanings

This study is offered with the aim of exploring the meanings assigned by a network of actors who develops a social sports project. The Boxing Project Vidigal (PBV) has its activities in the Vidigal slum, located in the south of the city of Rio de Janeiro, next to the neighborhood of Leblon. The methodology used in this study was based on the procedures of network analysis and also the construction of categories, based on the definition of the core and the periphery of representations. We conclude that there is great centralization of the person who conceived the project, for this reason there is low density and high centrality in the network. The perceptions of the actors roam the ideas that the project "changes people's lives," that young people "become less aggressive," that there are "social contribution in the formation of children, youth and families" and promotes "social inclusion of people living in poor.

本研究旨在探究参与社会体育项目的行动者网络所赋予的意义。拳击项目维迪加尔（Boxing Project Vidigal, PBV）的活动开展于里约热内卢市南部、毗邻勒布隆社区的维迪加尔贫民窟。本研究采用的方法论以网络分析流程为基础，并依托表征的核心与边缘界定构建分析范畴。研究结论表明，该项目的构想者处于高度中心化的地位，致使该行动者网络呈现出低密度、高中心性的特征。行动者们的认知围绕以下观点展开：该项目"改变人们的生活"，年轻人"变得更不具攻击性"，项目为儿童、青少年及家庭的成长提供社会助力，并推动"贫困群体的社会融入"。