O CONTROLE SOCIAL E A PARTICIPAÇÃO NA POLÍTICA DE ASSISTÊNCIA SOCIAL - UM ESTUDO NO CONSELHO MUNICIPAL DE ASSISTÊNCIA SOCIAL DE GOIÂNIA, GOIÁS.

Abstract

This dissertation aims at analyzing the social control and participation in the policies of social assistance by examining their constitution, competence, possibilities and limits of implementation in the context of the Goiânia City Council of Social Assistance (CMASGyn), in the State of Goiás. It also investigates if CMASGyn enables democratic participation, discussion for consensus and decision of the city social assistance public policies of social control or if its agency is exclusively limited to norms of accreditation and disaccreditation of the entity. In this analysis the direct and indirect representations are problematized through the view of values, ethic, culture and citizenship. It is a research guided by the dialectical and historical materialism reference. The conception of State and civil society developed in this study assumes the perspective of the amplified State, Gramscian legacy, formed by the political and civil society. The perspective of social control as civil society control over the State assumes centrality in this study. The working methodology was developed from the documenting technique and as researching instruments council documents were used: meeting minutes, resolutions, creating laws, bylaws and complementary others, the city social assistance plan and the annual management report. Empirical data collected from documental resources demonstrate how CMASGyn enables democratic participation and constitutes consensus and decision of social control in the social assistance policies of Goiânia city. Among the obtained results, it is evident that the social control is a contradictory process, which may or may not guarantee effective change of social public policies of social assistance, demanding struggle for the organized civil society hegemonic politics along with public spheres and social movements.