Aproximaciones disciplinares al objeto de estudio en trabajo social

Abstract

Given the role of social work as a scientific discipline oriented to the generation and application of rigorous, objective and systematic knowledge, it inevitably requires constant soreflection on its know-how. That is, rethinking itself endogenously, a situation that places us in internal dialogue and discussion, reflections that contain interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary implications. In this sense, the present article aims to approach the object of study in social work from a disciplinary perspective, as a central axis in the generation and application of scientific knowledge. It is a documentary study that consisted of searching for information in books and specialized articles on social work; the process used for the development of this document was: planning the search, investigating the information, classifying the sources, analyzing the information and preparing the report.

The findings allow us to observe that there are various ways of conceiving the object of study in social work, such as the helpless man, the subjects, the groups, the communities, the conflict situations, the social imbalances, the social question, the social intervention, among others. However, there is consensus that the disciplinary object lies in social needs and problems,
a fact that gives reason to the discipline and that is made up of three elements: the researcher or constructor subject, a social fact or phenomenon from which knowledge is intended to be generated, the theoretical and methodological references to study them and
that mediate the subject-object relationship.