Serviço social e questão agrária: possibilidades e desafios contemporâneos ao exercício profissional do assistente social

Abstract

The debate about the relationship between social work and agrarian question is something challenging for the profession in Brazil. Referenced by the authors of the analysis of Social Work, we can say that the relationship between the profession and the agrarian question has little expression in professional training and practice, which is a challenge, since there is little specific literature produced by specialists, making it a theme with little expression in the academic production of Social Work. Thus, our overall aim of this study was to deepen the debate about the Social Work, comprising the agrarian question as a particularity of the social question in contemporary capitalism, based on the analysis of studies presented at Congressos Brasileiro de Assistentes Sociais - CBAS and Encontros Nacional de Pesquisadores em Serviço Social – ENPESS conducted in the years from 2004 to 2014 and the contributions presented by some professionals who are working or have worked in this field over the last five years.From this general framework, was specified the study of the relationship between the agrarian question and Social Work through the interface with the social question; showed up the agrarian space as a potential field for insertion of the social worker and it was realized how social workers who work with the agrarian question, mean and value their professional practice. This dissertation therefore will be dedicated to present the initial elements of the relationship between agrarian question, social question and social work and determinants regarding the professional practice of social workers nowadays.