Contemporary discussion of the Argentine Social Work: critics to systemic thinking

Abstract:

This paper displays some of the reflections carried out on the PhD thesis concerning the incidence of both the formal-abstract rationality and irrationalism within the Argentine Social Work. For this purpose, it is discussed how the Systems General Theory becomes a new expression of an abstractive and manipulating reason as well as how, therein, a reflexive and theoretical corpus takes place within Social Work. Thus, the discussion focuses on the major considerations made by such authors as regards the professional intervention leading to a new conservative-type Social Work.

Formal-abstract rationality; Functionalism; Systems General Theory; Social Work; Professional Intervention