This research intends to examine, through an analitical approach, the path of citizenship and its implementation in terms of social policies, in the context of Latin America and its contemporary political and social conjuncture, as a counterpoint to the classical models of these concepts. Therefore, in order to present questions about social citizenship efetivation, considered as an element of the enlarged citizenship notion. For this, it will be necessary to identify the conections between the historical, social and political background of the modern citizenship and its theoretical development. Thus, it will be applied as a landmark to analyse the insertion of this concept in Latin American political practice and in the comprehension of the deficit´s of execution meanings of the social citizenship, in a democratic sense. So, the afore mentioned shows the subject´s choice relevance in view of the extremed inequalities identified nowadays in the region. Moreover, during the conclusion, it will be gathered the problems extracted from the analysis made throughout the research and news questions will be launched to demand future reflection.