CONSELHO MUNICIPAL DOS DIREITOS DA CRIANÇA E DO ADOLESCENTE DE GUARAPUAVA/PR: A SOCIEDADE CIVIL E O CONTROLE SOCIAL

Abstract

The present MA thesis aims at analyzing the participation of the civil society segment in the social control of the Municipal Policy of Child and Adolescent Rights in Guarapuava/PR. The approach method is the dialectical as the present study does not deal with contemplative study, nor it is external to reality, but based on concrete reality thus expressing a definite conception of the world. The instruments used in this qualitative and quantitative nature research were as follows: (a) literature and documentary research; (b) data form; (c) semistructured interview; and (d) content analysis. The empirical context of this study was the Municipal Council of Child and Adolescent Rights (COMDICA).The criterion used to select the research subjects was based on their history of participation, presence in meetings, and equality between government and civil society. Therefore, the subjects of this research included a former councilor and a councilor who have participated in Councils of Rights, three councilors of the current management, being two of them nongovernmental and one governmental. In this way, this thesis was organized in two chapters. Chapter one presents the theoretical reflection on the Modern State and its relation with the Brazilian civil society followed by systematization of the social control. In chapter two, the focus of study is the singularity of the social control at COMDICA in Guarapuava, describing the legal aspects of the boys and girls care policy concerning the general aspects of the children and adolescent protection network in the municipal context. The analysis and reflections indicate that the social control is contradictory, showing dual movement between potentiality and fragility. Yet the same time this segment importance grows in terms of political participation and plays the role of a protagonist in this area practice, it still expresses the conflicts between conceptions and practices of social control.