Poverti combat and development : theoretical impasses on present social policy construction / Combate a pobreza e desenvolvimento humano : impasses teoricos na construção da politica social na atualidade

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2008

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The thesis presents an analysis about theoretical foundations which guide social policies, observing, particularly, the meaning of poverty combat centrality on the conduction of priorities in contemporary social international agenda, signalizing which symbolic and material conditions instruct the transformation of social question theoretical status and its opposition forms, affirming an inflexion on analysis sense which start to privilege theoretical and methodologically a individualistic way of thinking social reality. One of the main objectives of this work is to show that happened changes in logic direction which inspires social policy construction, emphasizing how values conflicts which appears in nowadays poverty debates and how to fight it provides essential elements to comprehend changes in present social policies functionality and sense. The theoretical basis start with a discussion about the nature of poverty relief and its economic, political and ideological functions since the beginning of capitalist work market formation, which shows up faced with a description of social policy origin and development, which values and functions are quite different criterion of limited poverty relief arrangements. Special attention is given to Anglo-Saxon thought, particularly American social policy liberal tradition. Social policies recent transformations and social protection reforms appears as part of a larger movement in social reality located through a new global economic order and new post Cold War international relations pattern, which presents a renewed economic determination with globalization naturalization in front of political actors new positions (states, international organisms, financial corporations, etc.) who adopted new forms to play the part of an dialogue in international arena. World Bank shows up as a nuclear reference to demonstrate how economic and social development theories spread through international institutionallity, emphasizing its intellectual and symbolic activities, especially about structural adjustment and poverty combat. Another central thesis objective is to exhibit principal theories foundations which constitute the mosaic of the new liberal ideological hegemonic configuration which justifies and accompanies contemporary global order, what is subjected in the second part if this work. Because of that, there is a chapter dedicated to Amartya Sen, considered main theoretical source which lead back social policy into poverty relief

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desenvolvimento humano human development social politics international relations politicas sociais globalization relações internacionais globalização - aspectos sociais poverty pobreza

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