Del trabajo social al trabajo societal: Notas para un encuentro con los estados sociales de derecho y de justicia

Abstract

In our America new forms of request of satisfaction of deficiencies and empowerment of social aspirations are acquiring, more and more, societal character and mean geo-bio-political that it is demanding of the politician marketing and professionals and operators of the politic, political businessmen and political businesswomen as well as to corporative and social managers and social operators (within whom we find social workers), oriented strategic capacities to the profit of optimal levels of efficiency and effectiveness in its actions and impacts maintained in the quality and the way of life of the great population majorities, in special those of character ethnic-popular. By the light of the deep changes in several countries, this second lustrum is characterized by intense mobilizations, meaning with it environments of participation in matters that until the past recent were conceived like exclusive responsibility of the official and enterprise organizations and that today, more and more, seemed to be progressively being legitimized by the majorities protagonist before excluded. It is so that thematics such as post-development, the neo-modernization, the crisis of polemic modernity/post-modernity era, the globalization, the society of the knowledge and the Empire, as well as the re-foundering of the national states, the re-simbolizing of imaginary and generation of new practices of the politic an the policy, the economy and the culture, are being “trans-across” by the configuration of a new way of relationships of the Latin American states with the societies to which respectively they belong, as well as by new forms to make economy, culture and politic, in special the social policy one and, therefore, of unpublished styles of resolution of the own troubles of the social coexistence. The challenge of these is epistemic, ethical and geo-bio-politics that the reality of the states, of the peoples, of the Latin American nations and societies are raising to “The” university, to “The” science, to “The” technology and specifically to “The” social work, is to open to the invention of new practical and aesthetic and cognoscitive devices, between as the civic and democratic learnings and the contribution to redesployment and revaluation of the human-social capital in each country.