O serviço social e a institucionalização das demandas sociais: um estudo a partir das necessidades sociais no capitalismo

Abstract

The dissertation presented here is in line search "Social Issue, Social Rights and Social Work" Program Graduate Social Work - Master's level - the Federal University of Alagoas and has as its object of study the structure of demands for the Social Work in capitalist society. The research aimed at investigating the relationship between social needs, social demands and institutional demands, seeking to understand the structure of professional requests addressed to Social Work in under institutional. For its development held bibliographic search place in different sources: through the sources Marxian and Marxist was possible to understand theoretically the fundamentals that explain the social needs, the social demands and the institutional demands. In literature historical-critical Social Work were sought the principal formulations in the whole work of authors with wide dissemination in the category, directed on the study of the particularities of the profession in the social division (and technical) of work and on your professional requests, emphasizing the relation to the needs and social demands, own capitalist society. By exposure of the social needs, their recognition as social demands and the institutionalization of some of these, it was possible to see that the professional requests addressed to the Social Work are contradictory by own nature of the demands formed in bourgeois society, since the professional activity of the social worker quits this contradiction. Although limited by objective conditions that lining of professional activity, is this contradictory nature manifested in professional requests put to Social Work that allows to social worker, to act upon a given reality in their everyday intervention, differentiate and antagonize interests, content and projects of distinct classes.