Pragmatismo, interaccionismo simbólico y trabajo social. De cómo la caridad y la filantropía se hicieron científicas

Identifier:  TDX:1454

Handle: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11797/TDX1454

Authors:  Miranda Aranda, Miguel

Abstract:
Starting from the distinction between occupation and discipline, we state that Social Work is born as a discipline in the USA forming part of a Social Sciences global project in the historical context. In touch with the Sociology Department of Chicago, it was shaped because of the Pragmatism and Symbolic Interactionism influence.<br/>The beginnings of different disciplines (Sociology, Anthropology, Psychology, Social Psychology and Medicine) are studied and their relationship with Social Work in the industrialization period frame when the 'social issue' arises.<br/>The first contact with Science is described: The State Boards of Charities, the COS and Settlements Houses evolution and its more outstanding representatives.<br/>The academical institutions, the publications and the associations involved in the profesionalitation and social legitimation are described .<br/>How Pragmatism and Interacctionism affect Social Work through Dewey and Mead is explained too, mentioning the sociological remake of Pragmatism which is no other than the well-known Chicago School, and its more important representatives, their works and their relationships with Social-Work.<br/>Finally, a chapter on Europe is given. In this respect we establish that there was a profession but not the discipline, recuperating a significant author in Alice Salomon. We finish with a reference to the Spanish case market by Franquism.