MANAGEMENT AND SOCIAL CONTROL IN PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION: A LITERATURE REVIEW

Abstract

Currently, there is a growing understanding of civil community as a social and public actor. Therefore, the interactive process acquired greater relevance, with two concepts now being used in the sphere of social administration: public control and social planning. This article uses an organized literature review to briefly study the link between public control and social planning, showing the possible equivalences, divergences, and convergences between the terms. Initially, these are the aspects in which public control could be employed for the exercise of public management, as a type of technique. After an investigation into the subject, the opposite direction was found: social management is usually pointed out as a resource for achieving social control, being understood primarily as control of the collectivity over the State, and public administration only as a means of participatory administration, however one that requires a whole arrangement of non-imposition, encouragement of participation and assistance, with an associative emphasis on the idea of the performance of citizenship.