HEGEMONY AND CLASS STRUGGLE IN THE SOCIAL WORK PRACTICE

The Social Work education and practice appears today dominated by the neoliberal ideology founded in a rationality of instrumental character which is translated in a professional action that contributes to the reproduction of hegemonic ways of control by the ruling class. For this reason, the challenge for the Critical Social Work, as an ethical-political action, is to uncover the classist and hegemonic social practices which locates us in an excellent possibility for the construction of new starting points for a truly committed professional action with the oppressed sectors.