Entre a tempestade e a bonança: incursões sobre relações sociais de gênero e Serviço Social

Abstract

The following study has the objective of understanding the meaning given by the Social Work professionals to the social relationships of gender in the exercise of professional practice. Based on the statements of five professionals - four women and a man, in which they approach their trajectories and daily interventions, the categories that made it possible to interpret and to relate those meanings to the wider social processes were listed. The themes emerged of the speeches of the subjects of the research, becoming the chapters of the dissertation. In this manner the following aspects were worked on: . the subject of the gender experience as a social construction, stressing the importance of the family and the values objectified in the professional practice; . the professional qualification under the perspective of ge'nder and the indications to the discussion of the workflow of the social work that enable the continuity of the investigation. The theoretical-methodological referential used, dialogues with authors inserted in the Marxist tradition, placing, however, the internal differences to that field, as well as it demarcates the distinction with other matrixes that revindicate the gender as an analytic category. The authors that work with the dimension of the historical totality under lhe multiplicity of determinations to the constitution of the social subjects are thus privileged