social work

Depatriarchalizing Knowledge Constructs: Thinking Social Intervention in the Light of Intersectionality

Millaray Vallejos Alarcón, Universidad de Chile, Chile

Tags: depatriarchalization, intersectionality, patriarchy, social intervention, social work

Social Work as a Paid Profession: Limits and Possibilities in Contemporary Times

Sergio Quintero Londoño, Universidad de Caldas, Colombia

Tags: profession, social work, wage labor, work

Epistemological and Methodological Perspectives for Social Worker Professional Formation in Colombian Western-Pacific Region

Ana Yadira Barahona Rojas, Yuri Alicia Chávez Plazas, María Lucero Ramírez Mahecha

Tags: Epistemological approach, methodological approach, professional training, social work, theoretical approach

Social research and professional intervention: central categories in social work praxis

Uva Falla Ramírez, Universidad Colegio Mayor de Cundinamarca , Colombia

Tags: epistemological reflection, professional intervention, social phenomenology, social research, social work

Social Worker Skills as Observed from the Employment Market

Emilia López Luna elopezl@unicolmayor.edu.co Universidad Colegio Mayor de Cundinamarca (Colombia) Melba Yesmit Chaparro Maldonado melbayes@hotmail.com Universidad Colegio Mayor de Cundinamarca (Colombia) Abstract: The present article is a result of the investigation “Skills of social workers as observed from the employment market” conducted in the year 2004. The conceptual framework is also supported by the skills […]

Tags: areas of intervention, basic skills, generic skills, professional/job profile, social work, specific skills, work competencies/skills

Knowledge Production about Social Work in the Academic Institutions in Bogota between 1995 and 2003

Leidy Carolina Díaz Cardozo leidydi_az@yahoo.es Universidad Externado de Colombia Abstract: This article takes the profession as a study object with the intent of strengthening the training and professional exercise and scientific study of Social Work. It is based on the historical-critical approach that was given to Social Work in Brazil since the 1980s; this approach […]

Tags: historical-critical approac, Knowledge production, social work

Reflections on Social Research and Social Work

Uva Falla Ramírez ufallar@gmail.com Universidad Colegio Mayor de Cundinamarca, Colombia Abstract: This paper roughly addresses the sense and meaning given to social research in Social Work, its evolution and its incidence in the discipline development. To end with several reflection permitting to understand the need to make research from more integrating and comprehensive designs, where […]

Tags: research, science and technology, social practice, social reality, social research, social work, society of knowledge

Social Work and Social Responsibility: Notes for an Ideological Discussion

Martha Quiroga Parra mquirogapster@gmail.com Universidad Colegio Mayor de Cundinamarca, Colombia Freddy Vargas Jaimes fredyvar08@yahoo.es Universidad Colegio Mayor de Cundinamarca, Colombia Andrés Eduardo Cruz Suárez imperioandy.cz@gmail.com Universidad Colegio Mayor de Cundinamarca, Colombia Abstract: The relationship between Social Work and social responsibility is grounded on its historic and conceptual links, from which a contradictory system arises between […]

Tags: economic liberalism, human development, reflection – criticism, social responsibility, social work

Use of aesthetic modelants, as a body shaping process among transgender women

Abstract: Most research in Colombia regarding trans population health issues is related to sexually transmitted diseases. However, regarding body transformation has been scarcely studied despite its importance for the population. Therefore, this document describes the process of body formation from aesthetic modelants among some transgender women working in prostitution in Los Mártires neighborhood. Driven by social […]

Tags: aesthetic modelants, Body, body shaping, health, social work, transgender women

Notes on Social Work disciplinary cosmology

Víctor R. Yáñez Pereira, Universidad Autónoma de Chile

Tags: disciplinary cosmology, history, identity, memory, social work

Working on the Social Issue: Working Upon others and Shifts in the Worlds of Work

Claudia Bermúdez Peña, Universidad Nacional General Sarmiento –Instituto de Desarrollo Económico y Social, Argentina

Tags: social issue, social work, work, work upon others, work worlds

The Social Question And Its Articulation To Social Work

Sandra del Pilar Gómez Contreras, Universidad Colegio Mayor de Cundinamarca, Colombia

Tags: social care, social question, social service, social work

Intervention as a form of power in social work

Uva Falla Ramírez, Universidad Colegio Mayor de Cundinamarca, Colombia

Tags: force relations, form of power-knowledge, form of resistance, professional intervention, social work, subject of power