Benefício de Prestação Continuada: significados sociais e moralidades do dinheiro associado à loucura.

Abstract

This dissertation has as a main objective to identify and understand the social meanings of the association between money and madness, through speech of beneficiaries of the Benefício de Prestação Continuada (BPC). It is based in the idea of economic sociology that the BPC is not limiter to its monetary value, to discuss the qualitative dimensions of the BPC’s money. From the participant observadion held at CAPS Escola, research questions emerged, and, whithin the Grounded Theory, we opted for a qualitative approach of in-depth interview with the women from the servisse who receive the benefit. Through the data, it is possible to observe the negociation between the users’ life history, family relationships, symptoms of mental disorders and money. The uses and meanings of the monei received by these negociations, and, in the end, the complex relationship between the rationality of money and economic transactions and madness, and the subject of “unreason” is evident.