Controle social: expressão do reformismo conservador ou da luta pelo fortalecimento da democracia?

Abstract

The present thesis concerns the theoretical critical study of the social control category in the contemporaneousness. The debate that has intensified to the process of the democratization of the Brazilian State, under way since the late 1970s, which had its greatest expression in the promulgation of the Constitution of 1988. It seeks to capture the social control in the sphere of social policy, come to reproducing the conservative reformism or enhancing the process of expanding the struggle for democracy, taking as a reference the particularity of social control mechanisms place in Brazil for the politics of social work. The study was guided by the realization of qualitative research. In the process of knowledge was sought to undertake bibliographical studies, documentary (newspapers, scientific papers, journals, documents) relating to Social Welfare Policy and Social control in this, from reports, resolutions and documents from the National Council of Welfare. Thus the present study is structured in three chapters that are articulated through an analytical central axis, i.e. the construction of the critical issue of social control in order of their capital and operational in order to reveal different concepts, trends and linking the antagonistic societal projects. We performed a reading of the similarities and differences between social policy and social control, considering the historical process in Latin America and especially Brazil. Perceives that the social policy in Brazil express all constraints and contradictions in a society where has developed peripheral/wild capitalism. These traits have permeated the historical construction of democratization processes and the mechanisms of social control in the country requiring a reconfiguration of its strategies, we attempted to perform an analysis of the limits and potential of the exercise of social control, which is expressed by a roll of ambiguities between essential necessity for democratic radicalization and reproduction of conservative reformism which is established in the realization of social policy in the current context, through strategies fetishistic in simulacra of social policy, stressing the importance of instituting a new direction of social control, by the class work, focusing on the prospect of human emancipation