THE PRODUCTION OF KNOWLEDGE ABOUT SOCIAL POLICY IN THE AREA OF SOCIAL SERVICE: FROM MODERNITY AND THE EMERSION OF POST-MODERNITY

• DOI: https://doi.org/10.22533/at.ed.216492424049

• Palavras-chave: Knowledge Production; Social service; Social Policy; Modernity and Post-Modernity.

• Keywords: Knowledge Production; Social service; Social Policy; Modernity and Post-Modernity.

• Abstract:

  This article presents as an object of study the production of knowledge about Social Policy in the area of Social Service inserted in the context of the crisis of late-bourgeois society that reflects on the criticism of the societal project of the Modernity Program from the postmodern offensive. This is a bibliographic and documentary research, whose investigative material analyzed 53 Master's Dissertations defended in the Post-graduation Program in Social Service at the ``Universidade Federal da Paraíba``, in the period from 2010 to 2014. The discussion of the results highlighted the significant prevalence of intellectual maturity of the area of Social Service, through the theoretical consolidation of a Marxist critical basis on Social Policy, even with the limits and challenges imposed on modern thinking by postmodern criticism.