The performance of the bond in the Social Assistance Policy

The family and community bond is a goal that pervades all the norms of the National Policy of Social Assistance. Faced with this centrality the article investigates, from the propositions of the Science, Technology and Studies, and the Actor-Network Theory, the production of the bond as object of the Policy through the description and analysis of the different actors involved in its reference document: the Notebook "Conception of Coexistence and Strengthening of Bonds". We understand that the bond is not a mere link or association, but an immaterial object that gains existence because we constantly sustain networks of practices that produce it. Through this description we visualize the performance of three bond versions circumscribed to the sphere of power, affection and ethics. Three different versions that offer different ways of intervention to the Social Assistance professionals, as well as, generate different experiences to the users of the social assistance services.