Social Assistance in Natal after LOAS / Assistência social pós-LOAS em Natal: a trajetória de uma política social entre o direito e a cultura do atraso

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2005

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That work aims to analyze the social assistance policy in Natal city during the period between 1995-2004, trying to apprehend, on the basis of the guide lines of the Law of the Social Assistance - LOAS, how the social assistance was applied as a citizen right, and if the conservative practices, so usual in the history of that policy, have been broken. It is frequent in the studies about the social assistance, the reference to the political conservative practices. However, the analysis of such practices from the comprehension that they conform and reproduce a certain political culture, has not been common. That research has been done trying to apprehend the object of study theoretically and historically in its totality. The collection of data occurred during the period between Mars until June 2003 and May until December 2004. The information of qualitative nature was privileged through the documentary research and the half-structuralized interview with 49 people who were directly involved with the city policy of the social assistance in Natal.: users, managers, experts, program coordinators and delegates of the civil society in the City council of Social Assistance. With a set of questions that guided the analysis, the research was developed having as reference some hypotheses: the first one affirms that there is the legal fulfillment of the guide lines of LOAS in the City government; the second one affirms that the LOAS, as legal instrument of the social assistance policy has guide lines and objectives that, if accomplished can contribute in the construction of a culture of social and citizen rights; the third one comes from the observation that in Natal, we can find a legal formulation of the Social Assistance Policy as a civil right, incorporates the guide lines of the LOAS, but, in its practice the rights are replaced by the old practices of the favor, paternalism and assistencialism. When that happens, it becomes a second class right, because of the strong selectivity and the low quality of the offered services. Going out from the analysis of the central theoretical categories of the study object, social assistance, political culture and civil rights, from the trajectory of the social assistance in Natal historically, from the analysis of political forces who occupied the city government in the analyzed period, the apprehension of the practices and concepts of the involved citizens with the policy, the study allows to conclude that the marks of a culture of delay persist and are the instruments for the hegemony of the ruling classes. Confirming the previously raised hypothesis, the implementation of the social assistance in Natal discloses that it is mainly a policy enrolled still in the field of the possibilities

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social assistance in natal assistência social -- natal, rn gestão municipal servico social aplicado social assistance assistência social e cultura política social assistance and political culture direitos sociais city administration social rights

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