Social Management – recognizing and building references

Abstract

Social management is a recent topic which was raised in the Brazilian society in the 1990s amidst the tension between the two processes that matk the contemporary reality. One of these processes concerns the globalization of the economy, which commercializes and broadens the segments that act in the social management. The other concerns the late social regulation through the conquest of citizenhood, a democratic lawful State, and challenges of participation in the civil society. This debate is recent in social organizations and in the Academy, which emphasizes the importantce of references that have been systematized and supporting this thematic field. We represented herein the bibliographic review carried out together witrh the Social Service and with other scientific areas as well. This investigative work, based on the Contents Analysis Methodology, gave us a chance to systematize references whcih laid ground for our PhD thesis defended in March of 2005 and named “The Practices of the social management in social organizations – a way to the citizenhood.”
Key words – Social management. Citizenhood. Contents analysis