Thought, Knowledge and Social Work (241125)

Learning Outcomes

  • To approach from a socio-historical perspective the modern thought, Marx's social theory; (neo) conservatism and postmodern thinking in Social Work;
  • To establish an approximation of these thoughts and trends in Social Work in Portugal;
  • Analyze current debate trends and challenges of Social Work.

Study Program

Thinking, Knowledge and Social Work

Introduction

1 Social Work, doctrinaireism and conservatism

1.1. Social Doctrine of the Catholic Church

1.2. Conservatism

1.3. Pragmatism

  1. Social work and social thought matrices

2.2. Influence of social sciences

2.3. The Methodology of the American Social Work

  1. Social Work: movements of renewal and approximation to the Marxist tradition

3.1. The re-visualization movement of the Latin American Social Service

3.2. Knowledge in Marx

3.3. Structural, radical and critical social work.

  1. Social Work: postmodern thinking, (neo) conservatism and tendencies of critical thinking

Bibliography

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BARROCO, M. L. (2011). Não passarão! Ofensiva neoconservadora e Serviço Social. Serviço Social e Sociedade. São Paulo, nº 124, pp. 623-636.

 

ESCORSIM NETTO, L. (2011). O Conservadorismo Clássico. Elementos de caracterização e crítica. São Paulo: Cortez 2011.

 

FERGUSON, I. (2016). A esperança acima do medo: o ensino do Serviço Social rumo a 2015. MARTINS, A; SANTOS, C.M.;

 

GUERRA, Y. (2013). Expressões do Pragmatismo no Serviço Social: reflexões preliminares. In Revista Katálysis, Florianópolis, v. 16, n. especial. pp. 39-49