Linguagem profissional e o lugar da experiência: interações no cotidiano institucional dos assistentes sociais

Abstract

The main objective of this essay is to understand the construction of the professional language of social workers and their relationships with conscience, culture and experience. Working with this theme enables understanding of the conceptions of men and of professional world, built through their experiences, of determinant cultural aspects that are part of their choices and their daily professional actions in socialinstitutional places, through the used language. The language understood in this research as the materiality of conscience, product of social relationships and personal, and professional, experiences. Experiences understood from its historicity and as a result of professional relationships. The methodology of Oral History was a key part in this research, once it looks for historicity and for experience, bringing the subject of this matter to the investigation's center. Working with testimonials related to life's history of subjects, their professional and personal experiences, allowed me to understand how social workers build language in professional exercise. Using Oral History's methodology it was possible to search for the meaning that social works assign to their social practices bound with language that is daily built. When raising the memory, through oral history, I understood the construction of professional language as a historic process filled with movement and transformations. One important aspect regarded in this essay was the relation of professional language and the ethical-political project of Social Service, the professional language reveals this project, as it shows evidence that these projects are in dispute, amongst each other and in institutional spaces, once, when hiring a social workers, the employer prescribes its duties, in this sense, many times, it may, confront the professional project with the institutional project. So the language, fruit of experience, of historical, social and cultural determinations, builds its own place, as a form of existence and resistance, a strategy. This autonomous place where experience is in a special place, as a knowledge producer