the lack of tools suitable to aid the social transformation in the so called ghetto barrios favors the development of institutions and social services that do not meet the goals for which they were established. The barrios of La Milagrosa and La Estrella in Albacete illustrate a change in such regard. In those barrios has started an integrated social transformation grounded both in science and in egalitarian dialogue between social actors and researchers. The article focus on this process.