Civilización o Barbarie

Aportes al debate en torno a la misión civilizadora del Trabajo Social y las posibilidades de construcción de poder popular. El Trabajo Social como hecho político de la hegemonía colonizadora

Abstract

Taking up a fragment of my degree thesis presented in 2012 at the National University of Rosario, School of Social Work, under the direction of Mg. José María Alberdi (current director of that school), this article in order to reflect on the possibility of social work of being an instrument in the hands of the civilizing hegemony arises. Historically the hegemonic professional project within the group of professionals in social work was linked to the support of logic working capital. Although it is also necessary to make a problematization on the reason for the emergence of social work professionalized away the veil of official history. Occupational social work space is located in the center of civilization tension - barbarism, which is why we set such axes to rethink our daily practices. Interventions can sustain the status quo, and also have the power to be used for social transformation. Making a brief tour of the currents of thought on which the exercise of social work professionals currently supported. For analytical purposes we have divided into three streams written social work: one of conservative type, another social work linked to Marxist thought and a form of social work held on the national and popular tradition. In order to think and reflect about the possibility of it to build popular power.