A ascensão do conservadorismo e o esgotamento do projeto neodesenvolvimentista : implicações profissionais ao Serviço Social

• Autor(a) principal: Keller, Suéllen Bezerra Alves
• Data de Publicação: 2019
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da PUC_RS
• Texto Completo: http://tede2.pucrs.br/tede2/handle/tede/8619
• topic: Neodesenvolvimentismo; Conservadorismo; Atuação Profissional; Serviço Social; Neo-Developmentalism; Conservatism; Professional Performance; Social Work; CIENCIAS SOCIAIS APLICADAS::SERVICO SOCIAL

This thesis aims to analyze the configurations of Social Work in the context of the exhaustion of the neodevelopmental project and the rise of conservatism, in order to contribute to a critical professional performance and attentive to the recent events of the Brazilian reality. This is a qualitative, explanatory study, based on the materialistic-dialectical method, in which theoretical-bibliographic, documentary and field research were carried out. The time delimitation was planned considering the beginning of Dilma Rousseff's first presidential term in 2011 and the impeachment process she was targeted in 2016, which culminated the beginning of Michel Temer's government. The sources of research were articles published in scientific journals in the knowledge area of Social Work, examining the relation between neo-developmentalism / conservatism and the profession. The articles published by the Federal Council of Social Work in the "CFESS Manifesta" were also used as sources of research, which were intentionally chosen the documents that deal with thematic that has greater evidence in the period of delimitation of the research. In addition, a field survey was conducted with eight professionals enrolled in the Regional Council of Social Work of Rio Grande do Sul (CRESS 10th Region), which work in various socio-occupational spaces. The research seeks to expose what represented the neo-developmentalism in the Brazilian political-economic context, as well as how its exhaustion happened in relation to the rise of conservatism, and what was the configuration of Social Work in the period analyzed, considering the implications of this historical moment for the profession. The analysis of the data of the research, based on the technique of discursive textual analysis, revealed four central elements that reflect the configuration of contemporary Social Work: 1) professional conservatism persists and is reinforced in the post-coup; 2) professional formation of social workers presents relevant changes and challenges; 3) The dichotomy between theory and practice, formation and exercise, has put the professional ethical-political project under threat in the current conjuncture; 4) The performance of social workers in the context of dismantling social policies has been guided by the dialectic of reproduction and resistance. These results led to the defense of the thesis that the professional performance in the Social Work is dialectically mediated by the directives that are established by State guidelines of social policies, which are expanded or retracted according to the political arrangement adopted and the correlation of forces of sociopolitical actors. Although the object of Social Work is the "social question" and its expressions, the concrete instrumentals of action are modulated by the tension between the professional culture and the political-partisan directives that emanate from the State, which conform a specific political project. In the exhaustion of neo-developmentalism government, increases the State omission to respond to social demands, with the resumption of a radically neoliberalizing economic model, according to the politicization of morally conservative guidelines. Due to the management resize of social policies in this context, the professional work places for social workers are reduced, as well is demanded new strategies for action that respond to the contradictions that are particularized in its socio-occupational places. The rise of conservatism strengthens the hurry formation in Social Work and leads to the precariousness of work, tending to aggravate the dichotomy of theory and practice as the sociopolitical instruments of struggle are restricted in professional practice, increasing the gap between the material conditions of action and the designs of the professional ethical-political project.