O Serviço Social na Marinha do Brasil: reflexões sobre a atuação profissional do assistente social em uma Organização Militar Hospitalar (OMH)

Abstract

This dissertation sought to analyze the professional practice of social workers in a military health institution of the Brazilian Navy, highlighting social relations, working conditions and the possibilities and limits present in professional responses to institutional requests and user demands. We understand that to critically analyze the military occupational space is to reflect on the social meaning of the profession in this context, with a view to contributing to a theoretical-critical reflection on the particularities of relations and working conditions and of the collective work processes implemented there when seeking to decipher a field that has expanded over the years, considering that the social relations typical of capitalism also delimit this space. For that, we use the critical-dialectical theoretical-methodological framework, which seeks the essence of phenomena beyond the appearance of facts. It is certain that analyzing the performance of the social worker in a conservative institution, whose pillars are hierarchy and discipline, having as reference the ethical-political project of Social Work would be challenging. However, from the concrete analysis of concrete situations, we observed through the answers presented in the empirical research that despite the particularities present in the military scope, it is possible – within the institutional limits – to develop a work having as fundamental parameter the professional ethical-political project. Furthermore, we verified that it is imperative to restructure OMH's Social Service with the redefinition of work processes and sectoral (re)organization.