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The purposes of the present study were twofold: (i) to examine the levels of sportsmanship and goal orientations in Physical Education students and (ii) to compare those same levels according to different sexes, ages and sport's involvement. A sample of 422 students (221 male and 201 female) with a mean age of 13.73±2.46 years (ages comprised between 9 and 21 years old), completed two questionnaires: a) the Questionnaire of Sport's Values and b) a Portuguese version of the Task and Ego Orientation in Sport Questionnaire. In general, the students stated to display behaviors in sport's settings, according to the basic principles of sportsmanship and fair play. The independent variable that most contributed to a significant demarcation in Physical Education was the student's age, whilst those with ages between 13 and 15 years stating to not display sportsmanship behaviours and to posses high levels of ego orientation. Overall, we recommend that the sport's socialization agents should endorse the sportsmanship's principles deference, at their respective levels and in function of their intervention possibilities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on a study that discuss the infrastructure of beach volleyball as a production of sports of high income in Brazil. The study started by raising data of the sport at amateur level. Then it looked under it to bring out the facts which were remarkable so that sport could pass from the amateur to the professional level. As the beach volleyball presently represents the "professional culture" inside the new paradigm of modern sport breaking from traditional culture, the study looked into the process of noting this new module. The study concentrated on the period from 1986 to 2004. It concluded that Brazilian beach volleyball faces many adversities in the national social scenario, if it consolidated base in the value imposed by "professionalism" replacing the values of an "amateuristic" and traditional culture which is predominant in the world sport.