摘要：The study presents the evolution of the society's solutions for its malfunctions, starting from the assumption that any human group is faced with various forms of crisis. Some of the resolutions are considered to be utopias, others are considered derivations from matters related to social ideals, and most of them are defined as being assistential measures that react to the concrete social shortcomings. When the social assistance system has little efficiency and society is threatened to dissolute, the crisis is ameliorated by the compensatory intervention of social economy. The conclusion of the entire undertaking is that there is a complementary relationship between social assistance system and social economy that has modified the level of shocks triggered by crisis, making them bearable
关键词：social normality; social assistance system; social justice; social economy; functional complementarity; assistive capacity; social ideal
