The political conditions of professional intervention. Contributions, elements, and reflections on politics, the State, and Social Work

The purpose of the work is to present a category of analysis that was formulated to enable the objectives of an ongoing investigation. The idea of "political conditions" recovers a notion of politics and the State to understand one of the elements that configure the intervention process of Social Work. It will be argued that this concept allows us to analyze the exogenous and conjunctural dynamics that affect the disciplinary field within the framework of political cycles. It will be concluded that such conditions are verified in their symbolic status that is manifested in the orientation of the society project defended and promulgated by the actors of the institutionalized political system and, in its material structure, in the way public resources are distributed.