Social Assistance and Social Policies in Brazil – historical configuration, contradictions and perspectives

Authors

  • Beatriz Augusto de Paiva UFSC - Florianópolis - SC

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1590/%25x

Abstract

This work objectifies the reconstruction of the economic-social processes which the public social policies were produced in Brazil. It intends to look for and to solidify knowledge adapted concerning the meanings peculiar of each social policies configuration of the strategies affect to the social welfare, using a critical perception historiography about the national social and economic formation. At the same time search to accomplish also, taking advantage of a common conceptual bars, a historical-cultural interpretation regarding the country, deciphering its contradictions and reconstructing its social and political determinations.

Author Biography

Beatriz Augusto de Paiva, UFSC - Florianópolis - SC

É assistente social, formada pela UFRJ (1986), mestrado também em Serviço Social pela UFRJ (1993) e doutorado pela PUCSP (2003). Atualmente é professora adjunta da UFSC, no Departamento de Serviço Social - Centro Sócio-Econômico, nos cursos de graduação e de pós-graduação. Reúne experiência acadêmica nas áreas de ética e políticas sociais públicas com ênfase em seguridade social. Pesquisa especialmente temas relacionados à política de assistência social, gestão e financiamento público, participação popular e democracia. Desde 2004 tem se dedicado aos estudos sobre a América Latina e atualmente é pesquisadora-fundadora do Instituto de Estudos Latino-Americanos - IELA/UFSC.

Mais informações: Currículo Lattes - CNPq.

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Published

1999-01-01

Issue

No. 4 (1999): Seguridade, assistência social e cidadania

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