Editorial.
| Autor | Gama, Andrea de Sousa |
| Cargo | Texto en ingles - Editorial |
The 42nd issue of Em Pauta Journal--Social Theory and Contemporary Reality, inaugurates the practice of inviting guests for the edition of thematic dossiers within the journal's editorial flow. Thus, the Family and Social Policies thematic dossier is edited by professors Andrea de Sousa Gama, from UERJ's Faculdade de Servico Social, and Regina Celia Tamaso Mioto, professor of the Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina's Graduate Program in Social Work, both with an academic trajectory in the field of study of the theme. We hope, from this first experience, to deepen our editorial objective of offering readers and authors of the areas of social work, social sciences, and humanities a journal of academic and scientific quality, encouraging and promoting critical social thought with social relevance. The following is the presentation of the editorial content of issue 42, starting with the Family and Social Policies theme.
Discussions about families and their activities go back to the beginnings of the profession of social worker in Brazil, following the conservativeg11600 character that was strongly characterized by a normative process of personal and family behavior. However, although social work has always worked with families, research and knowledge production did not follow the changes in theoretical-methodological design and professionalisation project, and the debate on families was for some time secondary and/or dissonant with the critical approaches that make up the current reality of the profession. The major turning point in contemporary discussions about families was the impact of neoliberal ideology on social policies and welfare pluralism that places the family in a condition of centrality in the provision of social protection. These influences have led to the deepening of a familiarization process that has further increased inequalities between social classes and the reactivation of disciplinary practices, especially in relation to poor families.
The main objective of this special issue was to present the state of the art of contemporary productions about families as an important source for working with them in their articulation with social policies. Taking a critical assessment of this production is also the concern of the Family and Social Policy Research Network (REFAPS), which aims to articulate the production of knowledge among researchers and social work professionals and related areas in the field of Family and Social Policies and in which the special editors of this issue take part. In addition, the need to deepen this subject in the context of the Brazilian reality, particularly in the field of undergraduate and graduate training in professional areas that work directly with families, becomes extremely relevant.
In this sense, what has this call for papers signaled us in terms of contemporary productions on Family and Social Policies? What dilemmas or gaps have been faced and which have not yet been adequately thematized? The first articles deal with theoretical discussions about the family by inserting it in a historical and socially determined perspective, as some of them incorporate the contributions of gender studies. Another group of articles evidence the debate on family and social policies and throws light on the construction of social policies based on the family and the professional challenges posed. They appear comparatively between different countries and a special highlight is the Interview section, which presents the experience of building Uruguay's Integrated National System of Care, a model that is increasingly being studied as an innovative experience of building social policies related to families. Articles that address the practice of social work with families are no exception at all within the social assistance policy that brings sociofamiliar matriciality as one of its structuring axes.
Despite the rich mosaic that these works present, we can identify some absences in the debate, such as social work with families in other social...
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