O Controle Social na Política de Assistência Social: Considerações sobre a Atuação do Assistente Social

Abstract

The object of study of this Course Completion Work (TCC) was an approach to the role of Social Work in social control, in the field of Social Assistance Policy (PAS). In order to do so, it rescues the trajectory of Social Assistance, institutionalized as a social right in the Federal Constitution (CF) of 1988, based on the guidelines of political-administrative decentralization and on the participation of the population, in the formulation of policies and in the control of actions, through of representative organizations. The starting point is the recognition that its institutionalization is the result of the process of explaining the social issue resulting from advances in the organization and mobilization of the working class associated with the incorporation of their demands by the economic system of capital, through the state apparatus. The methodological procedure adopted is that of bibliographic research, based on studies by Correia (2000, 2004, 2005 and 2009), Sposati (2007), Mota (1995), among others, in addition to documentary research on the legislation that regulates the policy of social assistance, in particular, the Organic Law of Social Assistance (1993) and the National Policy of Social Assistance (2004). Based on these procedures, different conceptions of State, civil society and social control were investigated as categories of analysis, from the critical social theoretical reference, as well as the meaning of social policies in the framework of sociability governed by the interests of the capitalist system, particularly, the social assistance center of dispute since it was enacted as a social right. To this end, we sought to establish a connection between the guidelines of decentralization and participation with the dimensions of the professional actions of social workers from the commitments assumed by the professional collective in its ethical political project, emphasizing the organic articulation between the social assistance processes, of planning and management and political-organization. The research concluded that despite representing the socially attributed meaning of the profession, social assistance processes have been underprivileged in the scope of research and professional discussions in relation to political, organizational, planning and management processes, resulting in the realization of a serious problem, since , as they constitute processes with the potential of both reaffirming conservative practices and breaking with the social order founded on the subjection of the working class in favor of capital, when detached from the political and organizational processes, they distance themselves from the necessary mediations for the materialization of commitments ethical-political issues assumed by the professional collective.