Dogmatic debates on the content, structure, components and justiciability of social rights have not contributed to increasing their levels of satisfaction. Likewise, the development of the recognition, guarantee and protection of social rights have not contributed to raising their qualitative and quantitative conditions. From a critical point of view and through a qualitative, instrumental and documentary technique research, a deconstruction of the main objections to the enforceable nature of social rights is carried out: generational and structural. From an explanatory and unified perspective, the right to food is used as a case study to define the existing international and domestic defense means for its protection. Finally, a theoretical and methodological frame of reference is proposed for the complex analysis of social rights. This will make it possible to identify the flaws and propose solutions beyond the merely dogmatic debate on the recognition, guarantee and protection of social rights. © 2021, Universidad de Talca. All rights reserved.