A relação público privado no Brasil e suas expressões na política de assistência social: o cheque cidadão em xeque

• Autor(a) principal: Oliveira, Cristina Gomes de
• Data de Publicação: 2005
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UERJ
• Texto Completo: http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/handle/1/16071
• topic: Private and public spheres; Brazil; Patriarchalism and culture of favor; Social assistance; Cheque cidadão; Esferas pública e privada; Brasil; Patriarcalismo e cultura do favor; Assistência social; Cheque cidadão; Assistência social Rio de Janeiro (Estado) Estudos de casos; Políticas públicas Rio de Janeiro (Estado); Rio de Janeiro (Estado) Política social; CNPQ::CIENCIAS SOCIAIS APLICADAS::SERVICO SOCIAL

This dissertation analyzes how the public and the private spheres imbricate to build Brazilian social relations and the political culture that serves them as guideline. The study integrates sociological research concerning how social relations originate, aiming at identifying the impacts and influences that the aforementioned relations bring to current social policies, focusing on social assistance policies. The theoretical and methodological approach was based on Marxist literature, and categories taken from Gramsci works were used to study and conceptualize the public and private spheres. Empirical research referred to the program cheque cidadão , which has been implemented by Rio de Janeiro state government since 1999. Interviews, documentation and field work constituted the instruments used. Data analysis and final observations indicate that the fact that religious entities are in charge of accomplishing social assistance policies within a lay state gives way to relations that are based on private, rather public, identities between individuals and their rulers, which makes possible the existence of privileges _ real, if not formalized _ regarding access to social policies. These are meant to be lawful and of public nature policies. Therefore, the process described above distort them and feed the Brazilian political culture, deeply rooted in patriarchalism and personalism, that favors private relations in detriment of the public matters.