A produção de conhecimento na atualidade sobre ética e ética profissional nas dissertações dos programas de pós-graduação em serviço social no Nordeste.

Abstract

This dissertation sought to capture the existing debate about ethics and professional ethics in master's dissertations in Social Work at public universities in the Northeast. Its general objec-tive was to analyze the social direction of knowledge production in dissertations available electronically in postgraduate programs at public universities in the Northeast, in the period from 2013 to 2019, on ethics and professional ethics. As specific objectives, we mapped the dissertations that dealt with ethics and/or professional ethics in the theses and dissertations databases of the aforementioned programs; we identified in the debate carried out in the aforementioned dissertations whether there is understanding and criticism of conservatism, which has accompanied the profession since its emergence; we discuss the interlocution of these dissertations with what is hegemonically agreed in the profession about the concepts of ethics and professional ethics, this done through the bibliographical contribution of the re-search. Methodologically, we use the Marxist method to grasp social reality in a radically critical way, producing scientific knowledge by articulating science and philosophy. The research carried out was documentary and bibliographical, in which dissertations, books, scientific articles and the 05 (five) Codes of Ethics present in Social Services (1947, 1965, 1975, 1986 and 1993) were used to promote our research. Thus, the results suggest that the 06 (six) dissertations we analyzed agree with what we hegemonically have as ethics and pro-fessional ethics in Social Work, anchored in the ontology of the social being, in the critical perspective. However, we noted the scarce production of the topic in postgraduate studies, and so we hope that our work stimulates/contributes to the discussion in this area, as it is of great importance to encourage the production of knowledge.