CENTRALITY OF MARXISM IN BIBLIOGRAPHIC PRODUCTIONS OF SOCIAL SERVICE:

An analysis from the Historical and Theoretical-Methodological Foundations

Abstract

This work is the result of a research related to the Conclusion of Course Work, which had as a source of data collection works published in the annals of the National Research Meeting in Social Work, with excerpts from the 2006 to 2016 editions. The research took as an object I study the current (or not) of Marx's social theory in Social Work, defining the objective of analyzing whether and how the appropriation of the Marxian / Marxist tradition by Social Work has taken place. The study, of a theoretical-documental nature, was based on dialectical historical materialism, had a predominantly qualitative approach, although it resorted, to some extent, to the quantitative dimension. In the bibliographic research process that typified the preliminary analyzes of the theme, books and periodical publications, theses, dissertations, annals of scientific meetings and publications available in electronic media were used. For data collection, the methodology proposed by Aldler and Doren (2010) was used, based on the following reading levels: inspection reading, analytical reading and syntopic reading. After the survey of 210 works contained in the Axis of Theoretical-Methodological Historical Foundations or which presented some key word related to the theme, we proceeded to an inspensional reading of their abstracts, selecting those that dealt more directly with the theme, so that 74 works remained, which were fully analyzed analytically. After this reading stage, 44 works were selected, so that, in these, syntactic reading was performed. The main results indicated that Marx's social theory is the most used in the analyzed studies.