Pesquisa e Serviço Social: análise das dissertações (2021-2022) da linha de pesquisa “Políticas Sociais, Movimentos Sociais e Serviço Social” da Universidade Federal de Sergipe

Abstract

This article aims to analyze the production of knowledge in Social Work, through the dissertations defended, in 2021 and 2022, in the Postgraduate Program in Social Work of the Federal University of Sergipe (PROSS/UFS), of the research line two “Social Policies, Social Movements and Social Work”. Bibliographical and documentary research was used in its methodology, characterized as exploratory research with a qualitative approach based on the method of historical-dialectical materialism. It was observed that, in 2021, there were 7 (seven) dissertations and in 2022, 5 (five), totaling 12 (twelve) dissertations, defended in the mentioned line of research, in the period. Among the results, all the dissertations made use of the historical materialism method, the majority made documentary research in addition to the bibliographical one and some resorted to empirical research, health, with 6 dissertations, was the predominant theme.