TENDÊNCIAS DO PRAGMATISMO NA POLÍTICA SOCIAL PÚBLICA DE ASSISTÊNCIA SOCIAL EM GOIÂNIA

Abstract

This study aims at researching the manifestations of pragmatism in the public social policy of social assistance in Goiânia, particularly in the Municipal Department of Social Assistance (SEMAS), the body responsible for the management and execution of said policy, in the space between 2007 and 2016 , the years that marked and particularize the aforementioned policy with the creation of SEMAS in June/2007 and the establishment of the results management model for the municipality in June/2015, through administrative reforms. In order to reach the objective of knowing pragmatism as social theory and pointing out its appearance in the Social Service as well as its manifestations in the public social policy of social assistance based on the critical social theory was carried out bibliographical and documentary research. The first subsidized the theoretical studies and analysis of the documents: Annual Management Reports, Pluriannual Plans, Municipal Social Welfare Plans, Annual Budget Laws, Budget Guidelines Laws, minutes of the CMASGyn Second, allied to empiria, allowed analyzes that revealed some tendencies and inflows of pragmatism in the public social policy of social assistance in Goiânia. The study indicates pragmatism as a search for results in the first chapter and its manifestation in the institutionalization of the public social policy of social assistance in Goiânia. The second chapter deals with pragmatism and social work, and the third identifies some tendencies and influences of pragmatism in the public social policy of social assistance in Goiânia in the context of management, financing and social control.