Understanding the Assistential Action

• Autor(a) principal: Simões Neto, José Pedro
• Data de Publicação: 2015
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Política & Sociedade (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/politica/article/view/2175-7984.2015v14n30p102

The paper “Understanding the Assistential Action” focuses the social assistance in a sociologicalpoint of view and, particularly, on the action perspective. Thus, recovering the classical authorsform the sociological thought – like Simmel e Jacobson, and Tocqueville–, seeks to nuance whichelements make understandable the action, as: the context, the agents and the forms of actions, inaddition the own object of assistance, the social. Following this thread, the paper is subdividedin three main parts: the approach to the social as a new question, established by the capitalism;the public and private actions and the assistance as a field of power relationships. By the end, thetext shows that the assistential action closes difficult dilemmas to be overcome.