Crise, questão social e Covid-19: um estudo sobre as mulheres beneficiária do programa bolsa família em Novo Barreiro - RS

Abstract

The current undergraduate final project, in Social Work, is quantitative-qualitative research that investigates the impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic on the living conditions of beneficiary families of the Programa Bolsa Família in Novo Barreiro, State of Rio Grande do Sul, in Brazil. It is understood in this work the possibility of deepening the construction of knowledge, giving visibility and name to the expressions of the social question that arise in this historical process of the Covid-19 pandemic, and so many other implications on the conditions of life for a vulnerable population. Therefore, the method that guides this study is the critical dialectical method, based on historical materialism, which is determined as a method of analyzing reality, as a theoretical framework for this work. However, to help unveil the object of study, Focus Group and Guided Interview sessions were held with beneficiaries of the Programa Bolsa Família in Novo Barreiro city. Still, this research subsidizes some necessary mediation to understand the reproduction of social relations in the current neoliberal political scenario, as well as contributes with relevant reflections for the Brazilian Social Work, which is in the light of this reality so that these reflexive processes can mark their professional interventions. Finally, as a result of this research, important categories emerged from the speeches and data surveys obtained with the women participating in this study, which will be addressed in more depth in the full text of the aforementioned.