Serviço Social e o projeto ético-político da profissão: dilemas do trabalho profissional nos programas urbano-habitacionais

Abstract

This study seeks to analyze the intervention of the professional work of the Social Service in urban-housing projects in Belém considering the different orientations between the ethical political project of the profession and the governmental demands to the professional exercise in these projects. The research was developed based on the dialectical materialist method for the investigation of the phenomenon, having as methodological procedures: documentary and field research (through interviews). The study is based on theoretical references on urban space and the capitalist state, as an analysis of how the space was formed, identifying that the structuring of the cities occurred through a hygienist policy with a strong market trait, creating an abyss between the spaces for the ruling elite and the working class. Therefore, we prioritize in the bibliographical survey, classical and contemporary authors, who discuss the logic of city production. For the collection of information by the interviews, we applied a structured questionnaire with the following variables: identification of the interviewee and which project acts or acted; what are the main governmental demands; what activities they develop within the team; what is the meaning of the ethical-political project; if there is possibility of professional performance in accordance with this project; what professional strategies are used in defense of users; what are the positive aspects of professional work in social technical work projects; what are the dilemmas of acting; challenges for professional action based on the ethical-political project. The survey was carried out in the second half of 2017, reaching 10 (ten) Social Assistants who work in different institutions of public or private nature, such as Municipal Housing Secretariat, NGO and outsourced company that implement the social technical work project. An important element of analysis for the research refers to the refusal of the majority of the professionals sought to participate in the research, and everything indicates that this fear is related to the precarious employment relationship. They are Social Assistants hired. The analyzes point to the fragile knowledge that professionals have regarding the ethical-political project and how to have a professional practice taking this project as a horizon. Thus, the results of this dissertation indicate that the Social Assistants interviewed still see a distance between theory and practice and, although they recognize the importance of the ethical-political project, they consider that daily is a limiting factor for a critical and transformative practice.