Banca de DEFESA: LEOVICTOR ALVES PORTO MENDONÇA

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STUDENT : LEOVICTOR ALVES PORTO MENDONÇA
DATE: 03/02/2026
TIME: 09:30
LOCAL: Google Meet
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: 110
BIG AREA: Ciências Sociais Aplicadas
AREA: Serviço Social
SUBÁREA: Fundamentos do Serviço Social
SUMMARY:

This dissertation analyzes the production of knowledge in Brazilian graduate programs in Social Work on sexual diversity between 2007 and 2024, focusing on public universities. It is based on the understanding that this body of production is marked by theoretical and methodological tensions, taking as its analytical key the socio-historical determinations of the interaction between Social Work, the Marxist tradition, and the debate on sexual diversity. The study examines the historicity of the debate on sexual diversity within Social Work, the knowledge production of graduate programs in the field, and the main theoretical and methodological trends present in these studies. Grounded in historical-dialectical materialism, sexual diversity is apprehended as an expression of human diversity and, therefore, as inseparable from the structural determinations of capitalist sociability. Methodologically, the research is characterized as a bibliographic and documentary study, with quantitative and qualitative approaches, using data collected from the Sucupira Platform. The main results indicate the mapping of 72 studies (54 master’s theses and 18 doctoral dissertations) in Social Work and Social Policy programs, with the Northeast region accounting for 40.3% of the total production. The analysis identifies four predominant thematic axes: (I) Public Policies, Human Rights, and Social Movements; (II) Conservatism and LGBTphobia; (III) Work, Class, and Social Relations of Oppression; and (IV) Professional Education and Knowledge Production. Three theoretical and methodological trends were identified: historical-critical Marxist, subjectivist postmodern, and eclectic-conciliatory approaches. The findings reveal a significant theoretical-methodological tension between studies grounded in the Marxist tradition—articulating sexual diversity with class struggle and social totality—and a substantial portion of works that adopt fragmented, subjectivist, and identity-centered perspectives, often detached from the structural determinations of capital. The study concludes that sexual diversity must be apprehended as an ontological component of social being, and that strengthening the debate requires reaffirming the perspective of totality in order to avoid political-critical emptying and to ensure coherence with the Ethical-Political Project of Social Work toward human emancipation.

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Presidente - 1149518 - SILVANA MARA DE MORAIS DOS SANTOS
Interno - 1283608 - MARCELO BRAZ MORAES DOS REIS
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