A identidade profissional dos assistentes sociais diante da judicialização da questão social: particularidades na Defensoria Pública do Estado de São Paulo

Abstract

The present research aims to understand if there is a professional identity of social workers built in the Public Defender of the State of São Paulo in the context of the judicialization of the social question. It is understood that access to the judiciary to guarantee social rights should not be the only way to access justice. The central hypothesis was formulated from the premise that social workers still did not have an identity built in this space. The research procedures used the social research techniques through the scale of identity and the data collection by interview centered with the Social Service professionals, as well as semi-structured interviews with professionals who work in the multidisciplinary team, psychologists and publics defenders, and service users. The theoretical-methodological foundation is guided by the social theory of Karl Marx, from the categories emancipation and conscience. It was also sought to work on the categories of professional identity, by Maria Lúcia Martinelli, from the depths of identity attributed, built and deepened by the author, as well as approached the category "experience", by Walter Benjamin, because they are contained there Important discussions about what is to be subsumed by the view of capital, as well as the critique of the philosophy of law pointed out by Pachukanis (1988). From the results obtained in the research it was observed that a professional identity emerges built in the Public Defender. However, it is necessary for professionals to maintain their confrontation in the positivist space of law so that the profession is not subsumed as a mere auxiliary function that contributes to the maintenance and conformity of existing legal forms