Contracting Area and Research Lines

Program Concentration Area:

The Program's area of concentration, Social Policy, aims to build knowledge that can reflect on the process of formulating, implementing, financing and evaluating social policies, with emphasis on family access and the process of building social rights, across the entire population. capitalist logic. This construction of knowledge makes it possible to analyze policies, programs and social projects in different areas (social security, health, social assistance, education, housing, among others).

Lines of Research:

1) Family, Space and Society: Includes research that addresses families in their structures, arrangements, dynamics and transformations in the different stages of their life cycles (childhood, youth, aging). It addresses the forms of constitution and management of territories, movements and social networks, identity practices, power relations, conflicts, negotiations and forms of action by subjects in rural and urban spaces. Develops studies on childhood and adolescence, youth, elderly people, women, generational relationships, as well as on the rights of specific groups (elderly people, children, young people, women, etc.) and social policies (work, housing, health, education), in terms formulation, management and evaluation of policies, projects and social programs.

2) Work, Social Issues and Social Policy: It problematizes the foundations of work, the transformations in the world of work and their impact on the working class. It analyzes inequalities, expressions of the “Social Question”, political organizations, social movements and struggles in defense of human rights towards political and human emancipation. Critically analyzes social rights and social policies in their content, legal bases, institutionality, organization and management, financing, perspectives and trends in the contradictory relations between the State and social classes. It studies different social policies according to the specific socioeconomic formation of the country, considering its position in the global capitalist fabric (central or peripheral) and its role in the international division of labor.