Social policies today: the end of the road? / Políticas sociais na contemporaneidade: o fim do caminho?

Resumo

This article is the result of a study grounded on concepts to reflect on the relationship between State and Social Policy in the capitalist society. It adopts bibliographical research and literature review carried out within the study project during qualification leave. The main goal is to think about how social policy is configured, taking into account its economic determinants, as the result of a political and theoretical debate about the role of the State in capitalist societies between the main theoretical references within social sciences: liberal thinking and Marxist thinking.