Descripción:
Supported on bibiographical research, the present study is in tended to show the importance, for the professionals in the area of Social Policy who are involved in the fight against poverty, of considering some of tenneglected aspects of such social condition, among which, the social representations of poverty and of the poor and the ways in which such subjects' identity is con stituted. This is essential: poverty, in practice, can be faced as a multi-faceted phenomenon; the corresponding social policies may be more effective, reject assistencialism, and pro mote the protagonism of people assisted; the poor may be come subjects en titled to rights; the construction of effective citizen ship may advance.