Do controle social no contemporâneo : algumas inquietações acerca do trabalho social realizado em um CRAS do interior de Alagoas

Abstract

The present work circulates around the problematic of contemporary social control, which takes the Public Policy of Social Assistance as potential updater dispositive of the Panoptism, and the Basic Social Protection, in a Social Assistance Referential Center CRAS -, as a technology of surveillance and life regulation. In this context, the researcher‟s experience in the period between 2008 and 2010, as a Psychologist in the CRAS in a small town, Alagoas‟state, will be put on analysis. For that matter, two narratives about the experiences was elaborated. One describes the Psychologist‟s paths taken in the State‟s machinery, presenting the ways in which experience constitutes itself as the research problematic. The other narrative puts into analysis three cases of attendance in the CRAS. They had been chosen from the contradictions between the Basic Social Protections‟ proposals imprinted as preventive, protective and proactive, and with its effective established practices. These practices are fundamentally related to the control and judicialization‟ of life. Since the CRAS abandoned the collective actions of socio-educative and productive insertions, it strengthened a direct relation with the municipal Tutelary Council. As attending cases of rights violation, the Council engendered a certain approximation with the judiciary system and so, started to execute practices of orientation and surveillance to the families involved in the cases. The discussions are based on the theoretical concepts from Michel Foucault, Jacques Donzelot e Robert Castel thoughts. These thinkers talk about questions related to the technologies of life control; to he social work as a dispositive of regulation; and the emerging social question‟ as a problem related to the socio-assistance field and the protections system of the State. Lastly, the research process and the impacts caused by the concerns of make-written‟ are discussed in this work and related to the ways of research production.