Estado, família e proteção social: um estudo sobre o Programa Bolsa Família no município de Viçosa/MG

Abstract

This dissertation analyzed the conditions of creation of social protection policies to the excluded and marginalized, through the emergence of capitalist market economy, cause, if poverty existed before the arising of this specific type of market economy, it used to be resolved by domesticity, reciprocity and redistribution whithin the community. The emergence of pauperization and mendicancy led to an era of solutions for the excluded populations to have the "right to life". Among these there were families and women, in social conditions of extreme fragility. Against the "satanic mill" States created a Governmentality to intervene in the new situation imposed by the capitalist market economy that emerged. In the 20th Century, the Welfare State was the solution, granting benefits to workers, families and women, what means: the state will use part of its resources to protect those who were excluded from the new economy. Despite the criticism to this new role of state, such as being a "free lunch", that discouraged work and productivity, the Welfare State had triumphed given the multifunctional character of social protection policy of the state, that in one hand, removes the red danger, and on the other, imposes a social peace and prevent fractures in society, which has become essential for the accumulation of capital in this stage of capitalist development. In Brazil, the social protection system varied throughout the twentieth century in a model of underdevelopment and authoritarianism that excluded large portions of society to satisfy their basic needs. Hunger, unemployment, low wages were recurrent in the country. The arrival of the Workers' Party to power in 2002 reoriented the State Governmentality to remedy the gravity of the economic situation of the poor and created Bolsa Família Program that focuses on family, and especially women. At the city of Viçosa, Minas Gerais, the Program was implemented with remarkable results, such as the National Program, confirmed in the present research project through interviews and questionnaires.