This article discusses values of city councilors of Curitiba-Brazil on social rights, such as: health, education, welfare, labor, social security, food security and nutrition, housing and income transfers. The methodological procedures include interviews, statistical tests and analysis from the parameters of the Constitution of 1988 and from types of solidarity. The types were divided in two groups: political solidarity and gift solidarity. The results indicate that for the case of the rights to the direct monetary transfer and social assistance, the values of city councilors are compatible to the characteristics of the gift solidarity. In the cases of education and health, the values are compatible to the constitutional principles and the political solidarity.
political culture; social rights; social policy; solidarity; city councilors
