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MORANDE, Margarita. The Integration of Sociability and Active Membership in Social Work With Marginal Families. Psykhe [online]. 2006, vol.15, n.1, pp.107-117. ISSN 0718-2228.  http://dx.doi.org/10.4067/S0718-22282006000100009.

The article describes a research that took place in Santiago de Chile with the families who live in small camps of shacks with whom Fundación Trabajo en la Calle has carried out their social work. Two forms of social interaction, sociability and active membership, were analized from the perceptions that their beneficiares have of this way of social work. The methodology applied was ethnographic hermeneutics, and the procedures for data collection were semi-structured interviews, field work and experiential data. The participants were six people who were living in some of the camps were the Foundation was working at the time of the research and two persons who had belonged to one of the camps and at the moment were living in their own housing. An ethnographic document was worked out for the data analysis and it`s interpretation was based on the theoretical framework of this research. Data show that there is an integration of sociability as well as active membership in the social work done by the Foundation and, this is perceived by the families as highly significant.

Palabras clave : poverty; active membership; sociability; share capital.