Cinta de Moebio: Revista de Epistemología de Ciencias Sociales

Ortega, M. (2017) El estudio y análisis de las intervenciones sociales consideradas como culturas políticas. Cinta moebio 60: 286-294. doi: 10.4067/S0717-554X2017000300286

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Research and analysis of social interventions considered as political cultures

María Belén Ortega-Senet (belenmim@gmail.com) Departamento de Ciencias Sociales, Universidad Católica de la Santísima Concepción y CIEDE-UCSC (Concepción, Chile) ORCID: 0000-0001-5457-6847

Abstract

Social work as (trans) discipline is trapped between utopias and technologies integrated in devices of power and, we propose, could take more control of its own possibilities if it is self-observed as a system which produces and reproduces shared cultures and socio-political relations. In the following article, we focus on the construction of epistemologies for the analytical approximation of interventions and social actions of social work from socio-critical and complex parameters. We make this approach through the consideration of social interventions as political cultures. The purpose of this paper is proposing ways of understanding intervention as practice in an integral way, in interdependence with the macrosocial context, to achieve the necessary task of to feed, reflexively, the dimensions of social work.

Key words: critical research, intervention, social work, political culture.