Compreendendo a ação assistencial

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

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