Based on a quantitative and qualitative study that consisted in a review of the jobs available for professionals in the Social Sciences, published over 14 years, and in interviews conducted with working social workers, this article discusses the professional activity in Chile, revealing the diffuse limits among these professions, as, therefore, a relative construction. In addition, it approaches the loss of working spaces for Social Work and of its specificity in this field. Finally, it challenges social workers to consider the idea of professional specificity in a relative manner to increase their competitiveness and their opportunities to be considered more as workers who deal with knowledge than as generic workers.
Social Work; Diffuse limits; Exercise of work; Professional challenges
