摘要：The article debates the social capital concept as an essential analytical variable to understand what happens on the urban and metropolitan social area. In the text, it is done both kinds of analysis, an incidence analysis and a theoretical critic to the concept of social capital. The article approaches an aspect of this operational standard when a city government public relationship office takes some initiatives. Those techniques are viewed in a case study of public relationships applied on mobilizing lower classes that live in popular neighborhoods in Portoe
关键词：Social capital; civil society; Participative Budget; empowerment; social grassroots;networks.U
