A ASSISTÊNCIA SOCIAL NO PROCESSO DE RESTAURAÇÃO DA DOMINAÇÃO BURGUESA NO BRASIL

Abstract

This paper examines the mediations (institutional, political-ideological and socioeconomic) activated through the field of social assistance that contributes to the consolidation of bourgeois hegemony in Brazil. The study presents a literature review covering the critical productions that address this social policy, besides incorporating theoretical elaborations about the currently disputes between the hegemonic classes. The article discusses the emphasis given to the income transfer programs, articulated to the politicalideological concepts and conceptions and political-pedagogical practices developed by social assistance as a coordinated set of strategies used for the consolidation of bourgeois hegemony in Brazil. In this way, identifies that the reconfiguration of the various dimensions of social policy by the ruling class is oriented towards processes of passivization the subaltern classes.

Keywords

• social assistance
• hegemony
• income transfer programs
• political
• ideological strategy