Organizações da sociedade civil com viés religioso em Juiz de Fora: o exercício profissional do assistente social em um cenário de hegemonia do terceiro setor

Abstract

This study details the contradictions inciding on the praxis of social workers at religious civil society organisations. Stemming from a socio-historic analysis of the construction of social work policies and the constant inflections these suffer as a resut of state reform, it accomplishes a broad contextualisation of said policies at the local level in the city of Juiz de Fora, then deepening the discussion, developing a reflection about the work fronts taken on by the social worker located at this kind of socio-occupational space. The text presents the limits and possibilities for professional intervenience facing this scenario of hegemony of the third sector in a capitalist society, inciding directly on the contradiction found in the workplace. Then, starting from this conjunctural analysis, places the limitations for the social worker in a philanthropic entity with a religious bias and in a context of deepening conservatism. Wherefore the Ethico-Political Project of the Social Work Professional is recalled, with the values and principles needed for the construction of strategies and feasible tactics to face this scenario.