This article aims to reflect on the contradictory relations between state and civil society in modern society, focusing on the social control of the second over the first. For this reason, throughout the text presents a systematic social control over the category, from literature review and through document review and interview analyzes the conceptions and practices of social control in the context of Conselho Municipal dos Direitos da Criança e do Adolescente de Guarapuava. The synthesis presented constituted a category emerging from the speech of the subjects participating in the research context. Reflections indicate that the different meanings and concepts attributed to social control are products of the contradictions between capital and labor, the historical context, the complex relationships between state and civil society, as well as the design and role assigned to these spheres in different social contexts, economic and political, and that therefore there is a potential for social control practices rights Council examined, but it is a potential that has not been developed since the cultural and political context of Guarapuava operate for the centralization of decisions and resistance to power sharing in the context of the Municipal Assistance Policy for Children and Adolescents.