The social question in a context of crisis and neoconservative restoration of the capitalism

Abstract

This text presents reflections about the social question in the relationships engendered by the contemporary capitalism and by the configurations assumed in the labor, which produce new expres- sions and semantic deviations which depoliticize them. It debates the meaning of the social question, the responses gave by the social State in the Fordist/ Keynesian accumulation; the strategies of overcoming the structural crisis of the capital by neoliberalism and the new ex- pressions of the social question; and the current semantic deviations – attributed by the neoliberal offensive and by the neoconservative restoration –, with view to depoliticize it and with consequences for
the social work. It stems from a literature review in the field of Social Work and alike. The results point out for a social intervention ground-
ed on the ethics of accountability, in which the expansion of the logic of capital reaches to the individuals, thought as human capital, with
integrative intent, from the childhood to the old age, of becoming them companies of themselves, neutralizing social class conflicts.