Serviço social e assistência social: conservadorismo ou direção histórico crítica?

• Ano de defesa: 2012
• Autor(a) principal: Pequeno, Lívia Figueiredo
• Orientador(a): Forti, Valéria Lucília
• Banca de defesa: Monnerat, Giselle Lavinas , Guerra, Yolanda Aparecida Demétrio
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro
• Programa de Pós-Graduação: Programa de Pós-Graduação em Serviço Social
• Departamento: Centro de Ciências Sociais::Faculdade de Serviço Social
• País: BR
• Palavras-chave em Português: Serviço social; Trabalho profissional; Assistência social; Projeto ético-político
• Palavras-chave em Inglês: Social work; Professional practice; Social assistance; Ethical-political; Project
• Área do conhecimento CNPq: CNPQ::CIENCIAS SOCIAIS APLICADAS::SERVICO SOCIAL
• Link de acesso: http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/handle/1/15973

The present study aims to analyze the social direction of the action of social workers that participate in the Families Agency project, which is developed by the Bank of Providence. Through our study we attempted to verify if the actions taken by social workers in this project merely contribute to the reproduction of capitalist domination, since they support the process of workforce reproduction, emphasizing the promotion / legitimation of compliance, or if they seek to guarantee the service users' rights, perceiving contradictions and promoting ways and professional strategies that enable the resistance to such domination. Furthermore, we sought to see if the professionals' actions were characterized by ambiguity due to the inconsistent way of perceiving the inherent contradictions to the social and institutional reality. Therefore, it was necessary to verify the social direction of this workers' action, ie, the meaning of this action, its ethical-political direction, if it occurs and to what extent is it possible the materialization of the current ethical-political principles of Brazilian Social Work in everyday professional work. This is because, considering the conservatism that seems to characterize the institution, we understand that there may be distinction between the institutional and professional goals, and there is also an expressive tension between the current Ethical-Political Project of the Brazilian Social Work and the professional activity, due to the new configurations of capitalist society that are mediated by neoliberal ideology, which is increasingly related to the professional (neo) conservatism. The research was conducted by the means of interviews with the professionals and, as said, aimed to emphasize the understanding of the social direction, the meaning and implications of the professional practice of social workers participating in the Families Agency project. The analyzed data are also the result of field observations within the occupational space of the social workers interviewed, and also of institutional documents, records and reports. The analysis is based on the objectives of the study, taking as reference the historical and dialectical materialism by Marx.