Solidarity: a concept tensioned between public and private

• Autor(a) principal: Jamur, Marilena
• Data de Publicação: 2005
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista de Administração Pública
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.fgv.br/rap/article/view/6777
• topic: solidarity; social ties; public sphere; private sphere; social inequalities.; solidariedade; laços sociais; esfera pública; esfera privada; desigualdade social.

Although the concept of solidarity is related to a historically secular phenomenon, it has only been intensively used in the vocabulary of different social sectors in Brazil from beginning of the last decade, similarly to what has occurred abroad. Based on an analysis of the context in which the concept appears and invades the discourse related to interventions in social inequities, this article examines the differences that this apparently consensual concept hides in terms of its meaning and its values, as well as in its political dimensions and the social forces that it is capable to mobilize. And, from different approaches in the field of social sciences, it also discusses some hypotheses on the social and political meaning of the intensive use of the concept of solidarity since the end of the 20th century and on the actions that this concept intends to guide, considering the challenges placed by the new world order.