ResumoO Século XXI e o desafio da contemporaneidade, implicam para o Serviço Social diferentes horizontes teóricos e diferentes abordagens de prática, no enfrentamento da «questão social» e na promoção de conceções de mudança social. Com o objetivo de entender o imanente e o explícito no questionamento dos fundamentos normativos e dos fundamentos que sustentam a crítica no Serviço Social, e ainda de localizar no amplo debate da Teoria Social Contemporânea as influên-cias dos pensadores, da Teoria Social clássica, da Escola de Frankfurt e mais recentemente pelas teorias pós estruturalistas, as reflexões do presente artigo abarcam do contexto de surgimento das teorias críticas ao Serviço Social crítico contemporâneo, seus princípios e fundamentos e por fim a teoria crítica pós-moderna na sua dimensão ontológica, epistemológica e metodológica.
Palavras chave: Serviço Social, Teoria Crítica, Pós-modernismo
AbstractThe XXI Century and the challenge of contemporaneity implies for Social Work different horizons and different theoretical approaches of its practice in combating the «social issue» and promoting conceptions of social change. In order to understand the inherent and explicit in questioning the normative foundations and fundamentals that underpin critical in social work, and even to locate the broad debate of Contemporary Social Theory influences of its thinkers, Classical Social Theory, Frankfurt School and more recently the post structuralist theories, the reflections of this article cover the context of the emergence of critical theories to critical contemporary Social Work, its principles and foundations and finally postmodern critical theory in its ontological, epistemological and methodological dimensions.
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