Latin America today: changes and social cost from neoliberal perspective

Authors

  • ALEJANDRO KLEIN Universidad de São Paulo (Brasil)

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7764/rts.77.77-85

Keywords:

Neoliberalism, break-off, scarcity

Abstract

This paper develops some of the social impacts of neoliberalism in relation to imposed breaks with the Keynesian Modernity, particularly in the Latin American countries. It is possible to point out that the social changes gestated from the neoliberalism process have been more dramatic for Latin America, which means that poor people has not only “become more poor”, but also that they quickly lost key areas of State protection. This situation is related to the passage of the state’s social policies to the private sphere, along with a weakening of those, which contributed to worsening the conditions of employment and work, with high unemployment rates.

It should be noted then that one of the factors of social change acts by increasing of the segre- gation factors that refers not only to geographical distribution but involves also cultural factors. Thus there is a change in the cultural and spatial redistribution of the social groups. As social groups with higher incomes seem to be confined, low-income groups are stigmatized. The preca- riousness is a key of the neoliberal social order, which is also discussed in relation to the progressi- ve idealization of the force and the violence. This necessarily involves a substantial change in how is conceived and perceived the law behind an increasingly widespread impunity. These factors and their consequences are discussed in this paper.

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Author Biography

ALEJANDRO KLEIN, Universidad de São Paulo (Brasil)

Doctor en Servicio Social, Profesor Doctor del Departamento de Psicología Clínica de la Universidad de São Paulo. Research Affi- liated de Oxford University.

Published

2020-08-13

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Section

Artículos científicos