Assistência social entre a lógica do favor e o acesso aos direitos socioassistenciais: a perspectiva dos seus beneficiários, no Município de Cachoeira – Bahia

Abstract

The present term paper addresses the social assistance services of the primary care network of Cachoeira - Bahia. The research seeks to explore how subjects perceive themselves as social welfare policy makers. We sought to know the user of social assistance from its recognition as a policy, to the contemporary that still involves the process of implementation of the Unified Social Assistance System (SUAS) and the implementation and real consolidation of the National Policy of Social Assistance (PNAS). Thus, we sought to emphasize the importance of the development of social assistance policy from the perspective of democratic citizenship. Pointing the challenges to the exercise of a representation endowed with representativeness. To support and guide the theoretical foundation, we made use of bibliographic research (books, scientific articles, websites, among others.), Recognizing that it allows the approximation, in terms of content, between the researcher and his object. Therefore, we conducted a study on issues involving the subject in question, highlighting: the laws governing the actions of social assistance policy, its historical constitution, the relationship between state and civil society, subordination, citizenship, democracy , popular participation, among others. The study was conducted through a semi-structured interview with fifteen (15) beneficiaries of the services, based on spontaneous understandings regarding the policy. The results indicate that one of the challenges to materialize the real implementation of the Social Assistance Policy is to strengthen the determining role of the users of this policy in order to become protagonists of its historical process, thus creating mechanisms for the politicization of the population in perspective. of citizenship.