This paper seeks to help understand the concept of the social question. It affirms that the social question, as a concept and not as a category, is a construction that establishes the limits and scope of the intervention of the state in social issues. It concludes by defining the social issue as the final product of the class struggle in a certain historic situation, which has the ability to politicize the market in a given historic moment.
Social question; Social Classes; Class struggle; Social policy