Nos bastidores da revolução dos direitos e deveres: a estranha natureza do Estado e das políticas públicas

Abstract

The present work is a reflection of the search for the study of problems encountered in daily practice of a professional worker of the Social Assistance Policy in a city of the northeastern of Brazil. Initially this study took the path of reckoning another determinism through by blaming the users of social assistance by an actual lack of initiative (or resignation) to try and break their condition of vulnerability, which hold back the social development of the country. However, throughout the research, which was born as an additional reporting practices of a distant civil service law and in defense of a greater state intervention, in this trajectory of recovery of the problems encountered in the field, was seen on the other prism. Started to question what meanings could emerge for these practices of the worker if they were other problems to note. Now, no more fit to report how much practice or "reality" failed to meet the requirements of a celebrated law. The legitimacy or, the "true value" of the logic in this movement of normalization of lives was now seen by the researcher due to the intervention of the worker. To make possible the shock of these seemingly antagonistic forces between researcher and worker - and why not objects of study - we propose an approach to ethnographic and ethnomethodological routine of the worker, wringing in a field diary months of your professional performance. In this paper the field diary that was written is reopened and once again lacerated, elapsed over a year of estrangement from both bodies (worker and researcher) with the studied field. This new writing is a radicalization of this distance, where the researcher ends up not searching for the meaning or explanation for the experienced things, but only discuss under other implications, the clippings of the events that was describe by the hands of the worker in his field diary.