Abstract:
This essay proposes to analyze the relationship between State and authoritarianism in Brazil, considering the transformations of traditional and modern mechanisms of social control, employed by the ruling class as a social and political force in the dispute for the moral and intellectual direction of Brazilian society. The objective is to reveal that the modernization of the economic infrastructure implies the intensification of the mechanisms of surveillance and social control. Thus, we present the changes in social control from 1930 until the Federal Constitution of 1988. Then, we emphasize the neoliberal measures that gave rise to new forms of control in the country. Finally, we conclude that the insufficiency of social control institutions currently has a counterpart in the valorization of traditional morality and the increase of the social demand for security, creating two pillars of the neoliberal authoritarianism of the current politics.
Keywords:
State. Authoritarianism; Social control; Surveillance; Social class