A legitimidade profissional do Serviço Social: uma análise conceitual e histórica dos seus determinantes.

Abstract

The profession of social work was established and legitimized to act in different expressions of the social question, whose performance has been facing contemporary scene in a systematic attempt to rewrite the meaning ascribed to it socially , identifying distinct legitimacy conferred to professional practice . This study aims to examine the legitimacy of professional social work in conceptual and historical perspective. The discussion centers on the fundamentals and prospects of analyzes regarding this legitimacy, and traces the historical development of the profession, highlighting the social determinants that confer meaning and legitimacy to the occupation. To do so, it is a bibliographical research, qualitative approach, to achieve the proposed objectives, using critical - dialectical method as the analysis object. Given the analyzes , it is understood that the legitimacy of professional social work refers to the social recognition of the profession, which stems from the ability to provide answers to social needs , but also comes from reading their professional agents carry out their professional actions , constituting the professional knowledge and representation that make the profession . The different theoretical and methodological perspectives that mediate the practices of social workers in their responses to requests from social classes express the construction of responses in different directions. This has revealed the existence of coexistence of ethical - political projects in close contest in search of legitimacy, especially for the Ethical - Political Professional Project and the neoconservative Project postmodern character.