Bolsa Família: emancipação cidadã ou incorporação econômica? Uma análise no município de Pelotas-RS. 2016

Abstract

This research has the objective to analyze the Bolsa Família Program as public policy transfer income and their social, economic and political society, considering beneficiaries and non-beneficiaries of the program. The problem that instigated this work based on the analysis of redistributive policy actions of the Brazilian State and its ability to contribute to the construction of citizenship was, if such action to reduce social inequalities are able to stop situations of misery and poverty by entering the beneficiaries in the consumer market and / or improving their citizen condition? The hypotheses state that the Family Grant Program has the feature to incorporate a significant portion of the population to the consumer market enabling access to soft goods that enhance the quality of life, considering that the quality of life is linked to emancipation and participation, particularly of access to rights that overlap the staple food and the history of poverty and exclusion together with the Brazilian political culture limits the citizen embedding capability program. The methodology used was the quantitative and qualitative research. The main result of this research is that the Bolsa Família Program as the primary public policy of income transfer in Brazil significantly combat the social problem of hunger and extreme poverty, however, full citizenship is far from the current beneficiaries.