Abstract

FUENTES, Sebastián Gerardo. Rugby, solidarity education and wealth among elites in Buenos Aires: the construction of a moral class. Etnográfica [online]. 2018, vol.22, n.1, pp.53-73. ISSN 0873-6561.  https://doi.org/10.4000/etnografica.5147.

Young people from middle-upper and upper class families take part in rugby and solidarity education in Buenos Aires, in a context of deepening inequalities and heterogeneous elites. Current rugby professionalization touches the core of this amateur sport by introducing money into young people lives and exposing them to subordinated social class. The extension and new meaning given to the solidarity Catholic education legitimize the traditional charity, subordinating the socioeconomic inequality through the discourse of effort and merit among poor people. Elites construct the social class as a moral class by setting relationships with class otherness. This allows elites to morally distinguish themselves and to subordinate the value of money/economic capital as the main factor of social inequality.

Keywords : university; rugby; youth; moral; otherness; amateurism.

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