PARTICIPAÇÃO POPULAR NAS POLÍTICAS SOCIOASSISTENCIAIS NA AMÉRICA LATINA: estudo comparativo entre Brasil e Venezuela

Abstract

This article results from a critical-dialectical effort to analyze the design of policy socioassistencial in Brazil and Venezuela, with an emphasis on questioning the place of popular participation in order to build a comparable basis, able to translate the trends taking place in Latin America. This research aims to also respond to urgent latinoamericanization of debate within the social sciences developed from “the south” considering the need to think horizons categorical analysis is based on concrete reality of the continent and thus, propose solutions to overcome the current model. We believe that the contradictory nature of dependence in Latin America becomes the determining factor in configuration of the structures, not only economic but social and cultural in the peripheral countries. We conclude that social policies need ideas and strategies that triggered the effective participation of the population, so it is possible a new process of political dispute the real economic surplus, organized by the working classes.

Keywords

• dependence
• socioassistencial policies
• popular participation
• latin america