Banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO: LEOVICTOR ALVES PORTO MENDONÇA

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STUDENT : LEOVICTOR ALVES PORTO MENDONÇA
DATE: 10/12/2025
TIME: 10:00
LOCAL: NEPSA 2
TITLE:

Sexual diversity and social work in Brazil (2007–2024): historical overview and theoretical-methodological foundations of intellectual production.

KEY WORDS:

Social Work, Sexual Diversity, and Knowledge Production

PAGES: 87
BIG AREA: Ciências Sociais Aplicadas
AREA: Serviço Social
SUBÁREA: Fundamentos do Serviço Social
SUMMARY:

This project aims to analyze the production of knowledge on sexual diversity within graduate programs in Social Work in Brazil, particularly regarding how this topic has been incorporated into the professional agenda of the field. We assume that the intellectual production underpinning Social Work’s understanding of sexual diversity is marked by theoretical–methodological tensions. Thus, we center the socio-historical determinations shaping the interaction between Social Work, the Marxist tradition, and the debate on sexual diversity as key elements of our analysis. To this end, the investigation is structured around the following axes: (i) the historicity of the debate on sexual diversity in Social Work; (ii) the systematization, presentation, and analysis of knowledge production on the topic within graduate programs in the field; and (iii) the identification of the main theoretical–methodological trends present in these studies. The research is grounded in historical-dialectical materialism, understanding sexual diversity as an expression of human diversity and, therefore, inseparable from the structural determinations of capitalist sociability. Methodologically, this is a bibliographic and documentary study with a quantitative–qualitative character, involving the mapping and analysis of theses and dissertations produced in Social Work graduate programs, based on temporal, institutional, and thematic criteria. The expected results include identifying trends, tensions, and potentialities in the intellectual production on sexual diversity in Social Work, contributing to strengthening the professional debate and advancing a critical and emancipatory perspective capable of articulating the discussion on sexual diversity with the social totality, in alignment with the profession’s ethical-political project.

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Presidente - 1149518 - SILVANA MARA DE MORAIS DOS SANTOS
Interna - 1714329 - ANDREA LIMA DA SILVA
Interno - 1283608 - MARCELO BRAZ MORAES DOS REIS