Analítica da cidadania e o serviço social na atualidade: da teoria à prática

Although conscious of the importance revealed by the theoretical approaches to citizenship, that put the emphasis on the evolutionary process of consolidation of citizenship, i.e., a process that begins in the civil rights and «ends» in the social rights. In this paper, our main aim is to analyze the approaches that, although recognizing the importance of the previous perspective, sustain the need of the debate on the citizenship to transit for a more concrete level. That is, we want to take into consideration those strategies that can contribute to the effective materialization of rights, strategies those, essential for a social work that can lead to an active citizenship.