The three points of entry of political economy in soccer

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to analyze soccer based on the three entry points established by Mosco (2009) as constituent parts of a theoretical-methodological framework for studies on the global political economy: commodification, spatialization and structuration. From these inputs, which allow a recognition of dependence on particular factors of space-time and historical and situational functioning in social reality and, consequently, in the concrete social formations, aims at analyzing the development of soccer as a sport with great reception world, with due regard to the Cultural Industry as one of the major contributors in this process.

Political Economy; Vincent Mosco; Cultural Industry; Soccer