THE RECEPTION OF PIERRE BOURDIEU'S THEORY IN STRICTO SENSU POSTGRADUATE PROGRAMS IN PHYSICAL EDUCATION IN BRAZIL

Throughout this article we present empirical-theoretical indications about the reception process of Pierre Bourdieu's sociological theory in the Brazilian Physical Education field, taking the Stricto Sensu Postgraduate Programs as empirical material. In this course, 5,339 works were collected among theses and dissertations in a time frame from 1977 to 2017. To meet this goal, the text was divided into two sections. In the first, we developed the theoretical and methodological guidelines on how the data were collected and, in the wake of this discussion, we sought, through a systematic incursion into the literature, to verify the first texts to use the theoretical concepts and mobilize the sociological theory of Pierre Bourdieu in Brazil. In the second part of the text, as a reflexive exercise, a series of analyses and conclusions about the reception of the theoretical reference in the area of Physical Education in Brazil are presented, based on the data accumulated in the study. We thus conclude that Pierre Bourdieu's reception in the Brazilian Physical Education field occurred initially in the post-graduation program at the University of Campinas, spreading then to other centers in the country.