Social Work an ideology: reflections from G. Lukács´work

Abstract

Present work intends to present some of the hypothesis developed on PhD thesis approach: as it is, Social Work is a social complex which has a function related with social relations reproduction, acting over problematic situations coming from “social question” and expressed on user population of social politics and social services. For that purpose, G. Lukács contributions are recovered, since the author establishes, on his maturity work, the ontological bases to reveal ideology social determinations considering the social function exercised inside human sociability, as a social complex that allows to operationalize and turn practice into consciousness, as well as a social struggle instrument between different segments and social classes which compose human sociability and its historical becoming. By our development it is possible to elucidate Social Work nature, which can be considered as an ideological social complex, regarding its social function and the “materiality” on which it bases its interventions.