This article aims at recovering some ontological indications about the syncretic structure of Social Work, as it was formulated by José Paulo Netto in the beginning of the 1950's, in order to question the social significance of some tendencies in the current economic and political Brazilian dynamics for the profession. It seeks to base the effective value and the technical vigour of the "thesis of syncretism" to analyze the contemporary dilemmas of the Brazilian Social Work.
Syncretism; Eclectism; Social Work
