A REALIDADE EMPÍRICA DA ASSISTÊNCIA SOCIAL: a atualidade de sua implementação no estado do Maranhão

Abstract

This article presents a discussion of the implementation process of SUAS referenced in evaluative research results carried out in brazilian states of the north and northeast regions. It initially presents a critical reflection of the Social Assistance Policy as a process, socially and historically constructed, and then develops an analysis of the vision of managers, technicians, counselors and users about the Policy and how this vision translates into its implementation in the municipalities surveyed in the Maranhão. It highlights determinations due to internal and external factors, conjunctural and structural originated from the process of formation of brazilian society and the context of current capitalist society. It concludes by highlighting advances and challenges from the central elements of the subjects’ perception and their refutations about the implementation of the Policy in the SUAS context.

Keywords

• social assistance policy
• suas