About institutions and social work in the context of capital´s crise

Abstract

The text consists of theoretical reflection, based on bibliographic research. It deals with the formation of institutions in Brazil, with its colonialist determinations and slave roots, as analytical assumptions for the construction of critical performance of Social Work in these spaces. It considers the distinction between how they are constituted and the way they appear – to the extent that institutions appear, in modernity, as something impersonal, perennial and mediator of social relations, expressing the agreement necessary for life in society. In the conformation of bourgeois sociability they emerge as instances that announce predictability, ordering and protection to those who experience the modern civilizing process. However, they conceal violence and mechanisms of reproduction of social relations of oppression and inequality inherent to the historical movement of capital appreciation.