Intersectionality and social work: perspective for the analysis of inequality and social intervention

Abstract

This article indicates the practical theoretical relevance of the category of intersectionality, in the process of reality reading and inequality analysis, it is recognized as a tool that contributes to the construction of critical posture and intervention in the face of social problems that addresses Social Work. It is the result of the reflection and questions about my participation as a teacher attached to the supervision of level I of practices of the Social Work career, carried out during 2018 in the faculty of political and social sciences of the Universidad Nacional de Cuyo. For this, the theoretical category of intersectionality is located, the characteristics of the social actors and the institutions involved in the practices are explained, pointing out the challenges that adjustment policies have imposed in recent years in Mendoza. With an emphasis on the social framework marked by the deepening of neoliberalism and conservatism in the Region, which allow us to recognize some markers of domination and social organization (social class, racism, gender, gender) that operate simultaneously on people and populations to maintain inequalities, which together allows us to reflect on the contributions of intersectionality to Social Work.