TRANSFORMACIONES SOCIALES EN LA MODERNIDAD TARDÍA Y EL NUEVO ENFOQUE DE LAS POLÍTICAS SOCIALES

LA CONCEPCIÓN DEL RIESGO COMO DISPOSITIVO DE GUBERNAMENTALIDAD

Abstract

The present paper analyses social transformations generated with the advent of late modernity .There will be a critical review of the theory of reflexive modernization, with emphasis on how the notion of risk starts to guide the development of social policies emerging from the '90 after the breakdown of the Welfare States. The ideas of: individualization, as well as the need of a re politicization "from below" of society, begin to be the theoretical support for the reforms in the social policies in this new context. We are committed to the idea that these changes, rather than generating a broad network of healthcare coverage, relate to a new art of governing. We will examine the changes generated from the imposition of this new concept, in the practices of social workers. At the same time we stop briefly in the analysis of the Uruguayan rural development policy, aimed at family farmers, embodied essentially in Programa Uruguay Rural (PUR) carried out by the Uruguayan Ministerio de Ganadería, Agricultura y Pesca (MGAP).