O sistema de proteção social brasileiro: contribuições, limites, avanços e desafios

Abstract

Having agenda as primary reflections that aim you discuss some of the contributions, limits, advances, which the main challenges that exist within the universe of social protection in Brazil. The emphasis here pointed out, are tied together with initiatives aimed at tackling social inequality and poverty, on current trends and scenarios of societal transformations that characterize contemporary capitalism, especially in poorer areas and are often away by the actions protection. In a quick historical and conceptual introduction, it is noteworthy that, in general, we found that human societies have not developed some form of protection to its most vulnerable members. Be more simply, by not multifunctional and specialized institutions such as the family, for example, or even willful actions, or others with high levels of organizational sophistication and specialization. The fact is that, since the situation of social risk began to weigh on economic numbers and citizenship, governments put in functioning central government policies in this area, and still today, different forms of social protection emerge and run through time and space societies, in order to minimize, but with goals of eradicating poverty and misery existing in society.