Serviço Social e o pensamento pós-moderno: o debate necessário para reafirmação da hegemonia do atual projeto ético-político

Abstract

The coup of 2016 suffered by the working class, from the impeachment of the mandate of former President Dilma (Workers' Party), revealed in Brazil the resurgence of the economic, political, cultural and social project of neoliberalism, which advances through all the bowels of society, including in the Universities, evidenced in the daily struggles of Social Movements, especially the Student Movement and in the debates inside and outside the classrooms. In this scenario, it is urgent to study the impacts generated by this context in the field of professional education. To this end, the generating theme of this work explores the field of Social Work, in the two main annals of academic and scientific production of the professional category, knowledge embodied in the ENPESS (National Meeting of Social Work Researchers) and the CBAS (Brazilian Congress of Social Workers) between the years 2016 and 2020, in an attempt to understand which are the forms of theoretical approximation of the area with neoliberalism, expressed by postmodern thought. The work also seeks to identify the authors who carry out this debate and if their foundations are compatible with the current and hegemonic Ethical-Political Project of the profession, as well as by the professional Code of Ethics, being the method adopted for this research the historical dialectical materialism, followed by a careful methodological path. Finally, it can be seen that all the published works agree with the principles of emancipation, social justice, freedom and plurality, defended in the profession's Code of Ethics. Strong criticism was made to the advance of post-modern thought that is linked to the neoconservatism of the profession, also with its syncretic origin and the confusion that is made between pluralism and eclecticism. All the publications agree with the current Ethical-Political Project and with Marxism, maintaining Social Work as a combative field against the advances of capitalist exploitation and the domination of gender, race ethnicity and sexuality.