Trabajo social crítico: de la modernidad à la contemporaneidad

Resumen

The 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.