Fundamentos do serviço social: sua produção de conhecimento em evidência

Abstract

The study presented here analyzes the conceptions of Fundamentals of Social Work present in postgraduate studies in Brazil, particularly in the theses defended and approved in the Postgraduate Programs (PPG) in the area of Social Work, between the years 2015 and 2020. This study also aims to identify the theoretical-methodological perspectives that anchor this debate in contemporary times. The approximations made are based on critical social theory, whose purpose is to reveal the dynamics of the movement between the appearance and the essence of the object of study. Methodologically, bibliographical research was prioritized, involving doctoral theses made available in digital media, considering public domain access, and the type of analysis adopted was content analysis. In the sample collection process, the descriptor “Fundamentals of Social Work” (or fundamentals combined with related ones: the profession, professionals) was considered in the title, abstract and/or keywords. Five (5) theses were found, out of a universe of 633 (six hundred and thirty-three), which became part of the research universe. The results after analyzing the theses suggest a similarity in understanding the Fundamentals. Among the concepts of Fundamentals prioritized in the researched universe, we identified: the inseparability between the triad history, theory and method, which anchor the Nuclei of Rationale for Vocational Training of the 1996 ABEPSS Curriculum Guidelines, and the apprehension of the explanatory matrices of reality and the profession , which make it possible to interpret the movement of reality and the meaning of the profession, in order to respond to the present time. It was also possible to verify that, although the studies present objects of different natures, they do not differ regarding the adoption of the theoretical-methodological perspective to illuminate the debate on the Fundamentals and that this has been hegemonically informed by the historical totality of the real. Therefore, in the debate of the intellectual production on the Fundamentals of Social Work, there is an adhesion and strengthening of the strategic social direction of the current professional ethical-political project.