Notes on the conceptual use of the social programs analysis device

Abstract

The article provides an approach to the concept of dispositif to investigate its heuristic scope and limits to address social program analysis. The concept of dispositif explains how discursive formations and visibility regimes are articulated without reducing one to another; also is presented as suitable for understanding the link between power relations and forms of subjectivity. At the same time, the concept of dispositif it is desirable to investigate the co-operation of two dimensions: the macropolitics, ie, the political relations be distinguished by authorities institutionally embed ded presented as the only legally validated and, on the other hand, the micropolitics dimension, ie the political realm of beliefs and desires in which authorities are instituted less bureaucratic, more dispersed and informal. In the work we make an appropriation of this concept for studying an “anti-poverty” social policy.